Meit, Konrad (c. 1480–1551)

German sculptor. Working mainly in boxwood, alabaster, and metal, he made many small portrait busts and statuettes in a classical style, fusing together Italian and northern elements, in works like his alabaster nude Judith (c. 1510–15).

Meit was born at Worms. From 1506 to 1510 he worked at the court of Frederick, Elector of Saxony, in Wittenberg. The rest of his life was spent in the Netherlands, where he was court sculptor to the regent, Margaret of Austria.

He also produced several monumental sculptures for the tombs of Margaret, her husband and her mother-in-law (1526–32) at Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse. Little work remains from Meit's period in Antwerp after Margaret's death in 1530.