The artist is named for a small altarpiece in the St. Florian Abbey near Linz, the central panel of which is a Crucifixion, with a view of the city of Vienna. Instead of the Holy Land in the far distance, he has painted the unmistakable tower of the Stephansdom and the impenetrable Kaiserburg rising above the surrounding buildings.

The Crucifixion Master was influenced by the Master of the Vienna Schottenstift, one of the most important painters in Vienna in the second half of the fifteenth century. The Schottenstift Master had a large and productive workshop of which the Master of the Crucifixion Triptych is generally thought to have been an important part. Aside from this, we know little about the life of the Master of the Crucifixion Triptych or who he was.