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Landauer [Landawer], Berthold [Berchtold; Bertold]
( fl 1396; d Nuremberg, between 1430 and Nov 1432). German painter. He is mentioned in civic registers, tax lists and municipal accounts in Nuremberg for the first time in 1396, when he was accepted as a citizen and took the prescribed civic oath under the title of ‘painter’. The tax registers of the St Sebaldus district record that a ‘Ber[thold] painter’ was resident there. According to an entry in the Harnischbuch (Book of Armour) for 1408, ‘Berchtold painter’ had to provide a suit of armour as a conscript. In 1413 the artist’s name is given as ‘Berchtold Landauer’ for the first time. In 1421 Master Berthold is listed among the house-owners of the town. His marriage produced three sons, of whom the eldest, Marcus (d 1468), is included as ‘Marcus painter’ in the military recruitment list of 1429. The final record comes from 1432: Landauer’s name is mentioned in a letter by Sebald Schreyer, master of the church of St Sebaldus, dated 22 November, in which ‘the late Master Berchtold painter’ is remembered. He was probably buried in the tomb of the Landauer and Schreyer families in the east choir of St Sebaldus.
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