The Petrus Altar (also Geneva Altar ) with its four panels is the only signed work by Witz, from which the further attributions of the art historians are based. Bartholomew from the salvation mirror altar, around 1430/1435 In 1447 his wife Ursuline was mentioned as a widow. The latest sign of life is the inscription in the painting The Miraculous Fish Train, which gives the date 1444. In 1443 he bought the Zum Pflug house in Basel. Only works from the last twelve years of his life are known. He was also a member of the local Guild of Luke. In 1435 he was granted citizenship in Basel. This guild also included painters, among others. The oldest source that mentions him can be found in Basel, where he was accepted into the Guild of Heaven there on Jas Konrad von Rottweil. Witz was quickly brought into connection with a certain master Konrad von Rottweil in Basel. The frame reads: This work was painted by Master Konrad Witz from Basel in 1444 (in the Latin original: hoc opus pinxit magister conradus sapientis de basilea mccccxliiii ). Peter's Cathedral in Geneva, by Daniel Burckhardt-Werthemann, a scientist from the Basel Public Art Collection. It was not until 1897 that Konrad Witz's signature was discovered on the original frame of the Petrus altar, which Witz had created for St. Witz was able to come into contact with wealthy patrons and important artists. In any case, Basel was a center of international exchange at the time of Witz, as the Basel Council took place there from 1431 to 1449. In Florence, according to Deuchler, he is said to have come into contact with the art of the Italian early Renaissance and thus assumed a "hinge function" between art south and north of the Alps. The art historian Florens Deuchler suspects a study trip to Italy, which took him to Ferrara and even to Florence. In art historical research it is assumed that he spent his wandering years in Burgundy and the Netherlands. It is still unclear where Witz received his training.
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