Dr Matthias Weniger specializes in research on late medieval painting and sculpture. He studied art history in Berlin, Bonn and Barcelona. He defended his PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1997. He was employed at Gemäldegalerie in Staatliche Museen in Berlin and Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. Since 2003, he has been curator of the collection of sculpture and painting pre-1550 at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich. He lectures at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Bayerische Museumsakademie in Munich. Author of publications dedicated to Netherlandish painters active at the Spanish court around 1500 (Michel Sittow, Juan de Flandes, Felipe Morros) and Tilman Riemenschneider, as well as co-editor of catalogues of collections and exhibitions: Spanish painting in German collections, collection of Fränkische Galerie Kronach, exhibition Erasmus Grasser. He contributed numerous monographic papers on Netherlandish and German artists of the 15th through 16th century (Jan Provost, Jan Polack, Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece, Dirk Bouts, Pedro Berruguete, Lucas Cranach, Jakob Kaschauer, Hans Klocker, Andreas Lackner, Conrad Laib, Hans Leinberger, Bernt Notke, Tilman Riemenschneider and Hans Wertinger) and on sculpture around 1400, as well as Portugese Gothic art and Spanish Baroque painting.