(c. 1400-1445) German-born Swiss painter. His sharply observed realism suggests that he was familiar with the work of contemporary Flemish artists such as Jan van Eyck. Lake Geneva is the setting for a biblical story in his best-known work, The Miraculous Draft of Fishes 1444 (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva), representing one of the earliest recognizable landscapes in European art.