Marx Reichlich

In 1498 Michael Pacher, the leading painter and carver of the Tyrol, died in Salzburg with the high altar of the Franciscan church there unfinished. Among the men around him was Marx Reichlich, a painter from Brixen in South Tyrol who had become a citizen of Salzburg in 1494 and worked on that altar. He had trained with Friedrich Pacher, another Brixen painter, and Michael Pacher's deep, clearly built spaces stayed with him for the rest of his career.

The Belvedere's two panels of 1502, the Visitation and the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, were painted in his Salzburg years. They may come from Hall in Tirol and reached the museum through a Viennese private collection. Around 1505 Reichlich painted an altar for Florian Waldauf, a councillor of Emperor Maximilian I, which is now in the town museum of Hall. In 1506 followed an altar of Saints James and Stephen for Neustift, the Augustinian abbey outside Brixen, and its panels are divided today between the abbey and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.