The major milestones of Tilman Riemenschneider's life and artistic work

The article is concerned with the biography and artworks of Tilman Riemenschneider, an outstanding Bavarian sculptor of the 15th century, a contemporary of Dürer and Altdorfer. It has been found that the works of the German master, who worked in the era of artistic transition between Middle Ages and Renaissance, are distinguished by psychologism and portrait similarity, abundance of significant details, focus on the material world (not the abstract ideals), which often caused criticism from his contemporaries.