Master of the Oberfalkenstein Altar Wings

Three tall, narrow panels in the Belvedere in Vienna come from a painter known only by a working name. He is called the Master of the Oberfalkenstein Altar Wings, after Oberfalkenstein, a castle above the Möll valley in Upper Carinthia, and also the Master of Möllbrücke, after a village lower down the same river. He worked around 1510 to 1520.

The panels show the Birth of the Virgin, her Presentation in the Temple and the Nativity of Christ. The Nativity alone is nearly a metre and a half tall and just 56 centimetres wide. The Presentation came to Vienna from the Vintler collection in Bruneck, in South Tyrol. The Nativity took a longer road, through a Viennese gallery and a private collection in Upper Austria, until the Belvedere bought it at the Dorotheum auction house in 2023, bringing it back into one collection with its sister panels.