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Master IW

The Life and Workshop of Master IW Master IW, also known as Monogramist I.W., was a Czech or Saxon Renaissance painter active between 1520 and 1550, primarily in north-west Bohemia. He was trained in the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder in Wittenberg before moving to Bohemia. While he had significant clients, no written documents have survived to identify the IW signature with a specific name. Some records from the Prague painters' f

raternity suggest a painter named Jan Wrtilka, who worked in Louny, was the guest master of the Prague guild, but the neutral designation Master IW persisted in literature. His clientele included Catholic clients such as the Osek Monastery, the Deacon's Church in Most, and St. Vitus Cathedral, as well as aristocratic families like the Saxon Fictum family. After 1538, he likely operated his own workshop with an assistant, supplying Mari…