Samson Portant la Porte de la Ville de Gaza

About The Artist: Mair von Landshut

b. about 1450 possibly Freising, Germany, d. after 1504 possibly Landshut, Germany German draughtsman, engraver and painter. The signature Mair appears on all but one of his twenty-two engravings and on one of three woodcuts. The rest of his posthumously acquired name derives from the Landshut coat of arms on the engraving Hour of Death (1499; Lehrs, no. 19), which presumably indicates that Mair was working there. Nine other engravings are dated...