Jerg Ratgeb - Flagellation of Christ - WGA19003

Jerg Ratgeb (1480–1526) was a German painter and contemporary of Dürer. Ratgeb was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Around the turn of the 15th to 16th century, he appears to have spent time in Italy, where he came in contact with Italian Renaissance art and with the recently developed use of perspective in painting. After returning to Germany, he settled in Heilbronn. In 1510, he painted the altar of Saint Barbara in the church of nearby Schwaigern.