Triptych with the Crucification

Michel Haider (active 1479 -1516) painted his golden winged altarpiece showing believers in prayer shortly after the creation of Dürer's panel.

Hugo von Hohenlandenberg, Bishop of Constance, probably commissioned the artist, who lived by Lake Constance, to produce the work for his private chapel. The central Crucifixion panel shows Mary, Mary Magdalene, and John the Apostle assemble on Golgotha beneath the crosses of Christ and the two thieves. On the outer wings, the scene is flanked by Conrad and Pelagius, the guardian angels of the bishopric of Constance. In the foreground of the left panel is the small, kneeling figure of the donor.

Hugo von Hohenlandenberg, whose individual features are recorded in a portrait that also be- longs to the Kunsthalle collection. The work is still fully in the late Gothic style: the immersion of the pious in the story of suffering is presented against a gold foil to indicate the Holy presence, with wooden tracery ornamentation, and the figures bear only typecast physiognomy.