Painted carpet

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Pictures 1 to 3 of the painter's carpet
Pictures 4 and 5 of the painter's carpet

The painter's carpet , also known as the women's list carpet , is a bench hanging created in the years 1320/30 (e.g. for a monastery bench). He is 491 cm long and about 66 cm wide and shows in wool embroidery on linen eleven representations in the form of a Gothic quatrefoil .

The names Johannes and Anna embroidered on the carpet refer to the founder, Johannes Malterer from Freiburg (father of Martin Malterer ) and his sister Anna. This is documented as a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine in Freiburg . Today the carpet is on permanent loan from the Adelhausen Foundation Freiburg in the treasury of the Augustinermuseum of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau .

He shows various motifs, each of which is about love , more precisely about the duping of a man in love by a woman (topos of the minnie slave ); every "story" is represented with a good and a bad picture (ere / leit):

  • Picture 1 and picture 11: The coat of arms of the Freiburg patrician family Malterer, on picture 1 you can see the inscription "Anna", on picture 11 "Johannes".
  • Photo 2: Samson fighting the lion.
  • Image 3: Philistine Delilah who cuts off Samson 's hair and thus robs him of his strength.
  • Image 4: Aristotle in his study in front of a book stand. He grabs the chin of a woman standing in front of it through the window.
  • Image 5: The woman, Phyllis , uses Aristotle as a mount, "Aristotle and Phyllis" was a popular motif
  • Image 6: You can see a tower with a battlement, a woman in a window of the tower. In front of it stands a man who is holding the lady by the hand and whispering something to her.
  • Photo 7: The tower window is now closed, the lady is standing on the battlement. She has a rope in her hand, on which the man is sitting in a basket and has his arms spread in a pleading position. It is the motif , which has been widely used in literary terms since the 14th century , and which stylizes the poet Virgil as a lover hanging in a basket and exposed to public mockery.
  • Image 8: A spring and a marble block can be seen, on top of which is a golden basin. Behind the spring are two fighters, above them a dark cloud: it is the fight between Iwein and Ascalon .
  • Image 9: The servant Lunete and Iwein stand in front of Queen Laudine , who has bowed her head in mourning and folded her hands. With the help of the magic ring, Iwein conquers Laudine, the widow of Askalon.
  • Image 10: A unicorn lays its head in a woman's lap and symbolizes the conception of Jesus Christ by the Virgin Mary. This scene stands alone without an antithetical counterpart and represents true love, the love of God, which, as a singular scene, emphasizes the priority of spiritual love.
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The complete painter's carpet

literature

  • Hermann Schweitzer: The picture carpets and embroidery in the municipal antiquities collection in Freiburg im Breisgau. In: Schau-ins-Land , Volume 31, 1904, pp. 35–64; on the Maltererteppich pp. 44–54 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Maurer : The topos of the 'Minneslaves'. In: Deutsche Viertaljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft and Geistesgeschichte 27, 1953, pp. 182–206.
  • Jutta Eissengarthen: Medieval textiles from Adelhausen Abbey in the Augustinian Museum in Freiburg . Adelhausen Foundation Freiburg im Breisgau 1985.
  • Norbert H. Ott: Minne or amor carnalis? On the function of the minneslave representations in medieval art. In: Love in German literature: St. Andrews-Colloquium 1985 , ed. by Jeffrey Ashcroft, Dietrich Huschenbett, William Henry Jackson. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1987, pp. 107-125.
  • Susan L. Smith: The Power of Women Topos on a 14th-Century Embroidery. In: Viator 21, 1990, pp. 203-227.
  • James A. Rushing: Iwein as Slave of Woman: The 'Maltererteppich' in Freiburg. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 55, 1992, pp. 124–135.
  • Wolfgang Wegner: The 'Iwein' depictions of the painter's carpet in Freiburg i.Br. Reflections on their interpretation . In: Mediävistik 5, 1992, pp. 187-196
  • Kristina E. Gourlay: A Positive Representation of the Power of Young Women: The Malterer Embroidery Re-Examined. In: Young Medieval Women , ed. by Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, Kim M. Phillips, St. Martin's Press, New York 1999, pp. 69-102.
  • Bernd Schirok: On the Freiburg painter carpet: The ring in the second Iwein medallion and the program of the cycle . In: Journal for German Philology 133, 2014, pp. 389–419.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '38.2 "  N , 7 ° 51' 8.5"  E