Notker Physicus, Swiss painter

Notker Physicus

Monk, physician, painter, composer and poet (died 975)

Notker Physicus was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, active as a physician, painter, composer and poet. He is best known for his medical prowess, and may have been physician to the Holy Roman Emperors Otto I and Otto II. His paintings, now lost, were well regarded…