The New International Encyclopædia/Kulmbach, Hans von
KULMBACH, or CULMBACH, 
(properly ) (c.l485-1522). A German
painter and engraver, born at Kulmbach, in
Franconia. He was a pupil of Dürer, and then of
Jacopo de' Barbari. His masterpiece is the
“Coronation of the Virgin,” in the Church of Sankt
Sebald at Nuremberg. Other works by him are
treatments of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (the
Uffizi, Florence) and of Saint Catharine (at Saint
Mary's Church, Cracow). He also painted
portraits. Kulmbach stands among the first of
Dürer's pupils.