Portrait of Anton Hundertpfundt

Wolf Huber's Portrait of Anton Hundertpfundt is among the finest surviving portraits by this Passau-based master of the Danube School. Huber, less celebrated than his colleague Albrecht Altdorfer but equally significant in developing the Danube School's characteristic fusion of landscape and figure, produced portraits that combined Altdorfer's atmospheric sensitivity with the frank characterization demanded by his patrician clients. Anton Hundertpfundt was likely a Regensburg or Passau official, and Huber's treatment gives the sitter a direct, unidealized presence that distinguished German portraiture from the more courtly formulas of Italian and Flemish practice.

The portrait follows established conventions of the period, with attention to physiognomic features and costume details that convey social identity and status.