Isenheim Altar and Chapel

The chapel in the Unterlinden Museum contains fine paintings by early German artists, including Passion scenes by Martin Schongauer and works by Isenmann, Lucas Cranach the Elder and other masters. Its chief treasure, however, is Matthias Groenewald's Isenheim Altar, one of the greatest and most moving masterpieces of German painting, a work of glowing color and great imaginative power which was painted about 1515 for the convent of Isenheim or Issenheim near Guebwiller (statues by Nicholas of Haguenau). There is a good general view of the paintings from the gallery.