Marienaltar: Vermählung Mariae

Marx Reichlich, a painter active in the Tyrol and Salzburg regions, created this Marriage of the Virgin as part of a Marian altarpiece around 1511. Reichlich trained under Michael Pacher and became one of the leading artists in the Brixner school, bringing Italian Renaissance spatial construction into the tradition of Tyrolean panel painting. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting.

Reichlich's architectural settings show sophisticated perspective construction learned from Pacher's Italian-influenced workshop, combined with rich gold backgrounds still favored in Alpine altarpieces.