KULMBACH, Hans Süss von

German painter, pupil of Jacopo de' Barbari and follower of Dürer. He worked in Nuremberg and probably for a time in Cracow, Poland. His works include the Tucher altarpieceGLOSSARYA picture or sculpture that stands on or is set up behind an altar. The term reredos is used for an ornamental screen or partition, not directly attached to the altar table but affixed to the wall behind it. A diptych is an altarpiece consisting of two panels, a triptych one of three panels, and a polyptych one of four or more panels. From the 14th to 16th century, the altarpiece was one of the most important commissions in European art; it was through the altarpiece that some of the most decisive developments in painting and sculpture came about. designed by Dürer in St Sebald's church, Nuremberg, altarpieces in churches in Cracow, Adoration of the Magi, and portraits.