The Funeral Monument of Saint Ulrich

Kager worked in Munich and Augsburg for the major part of his life, and was much in demand in Southern Germany. Next to being a painter and draughtsman, he worked as an architect, designing the Augsburg city prison in 1621. A comparable drawing is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, T. DaCosta Kaufmann, Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680, exhib. catalogue, Princeton, 1982, no. 36, illustrated.
An alternative attribution to Hans Friedrich Schorer (c. 1585-after 1654) has been suggested on the basis of a comparison to his drawing i the Graphische Sammlung, Munich, D. Kuhrmann and others, Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung des Kurfsten Carl Theodor, exhib. catalogue, Munich, 1983-4, no. 123, fig. 84.