Abstract
Summary The Augsburg Painter Jörg Breu the Elder (cca 1475/80-1537) painted his first three retables 1500/02 in Austria for the Monasteries Zwettl and Melk as well as for the Monastery of the Carthusian Order in Aggsbach. Because of his vivid narrative style and the emotionally coloured rendering of the landscape he is considered as one of the founders of the so called Danube School besides of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Back to Augsburg, in October 1502, he got the right of a painter. There is a general hypothesis, that his journey went from Augsburg through Passau to Vienna and Krems, and that he was influenced by the works of Jan Polack in Munich, by them of Mair and Hans Wertinger in Fresing and Landshut. However, one can arrive to an other conclusion concerning his route, on the basis of influences which can be observed in the early retables by Breu, So, he could wander from Augsburg through Munich to Tyrol and from there to Salzburg and to Lower Austria. He might study on the site the retable of the Virgin of 1485/90 by a Tyrolean Master in the Premonstratensian Abbey Wilten near Innsbruck as well as the St. Wolfgang retable by Michael Pacher and the Altar of 1499 in Grossgmain, both in the Salzburg domain.
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