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Jacob Acker

The Ulm Legacy and the Acker Dynasty To understand Jacob Acker, one must look at the lineage of the Ulm school, a family of painters that dominated the artistic landscape of southern Germany. He is often identified as Jacob Acker "the Younger," a distinction that places him within a multi-generational dynasty of craftsmen. This family tradition began with Jakob Acker "the Elder," who worked around 1400 and contributed stained glass to

the Ulm Minster. The lineage continued through Hans Acker, who was active until 1461. Jacob operated in the second half of the 15th century, a period when the Ulm workshop style was a dominant force in regional religious art. The historical record of his work is defined by what survived the religious upheavals of the 16th century. While much of his output was lost to the iconoclasm of the Reformation, his surviving contributions provi…