Absalom master

Eight monsters . 1500-1550. Brown ink on paper. 19.7 x 13.8 cm. Leiden, Kupferstichkabinett of the University of Leiden .

With Master of the death of Absalom (Dutch Meester van de Dood van Absalom ) or only Absalom Master a Dutch artist of the school of is Hieronymus Bosch called. A number of his old Dutch drawings from around 1475, including grotesque pictures of monsters and designs for round window pictures with various secular motifs, are mainly kept in the copperplate cabinet of the State Art Collections in Dresden.

Like Bosch , the Absalom master is on the threshold of the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance .

Works (selection)

Drawings of the Absalom Master are z. B. kept in:

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, State Art Collections
London, British Museum , Department of Prints and Drawings
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
Vienna, portrait collection of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Erwin Pokorny: The Dresden drawings of the Absalom master. In: Thomas Ketelsen, Uta Neidhardt: The secret of Jan van Eyck. The early Dutch drawings and paintings in Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-06566-0 , pp. 110–113 (exhibition catalog, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Residenzschloss, Dresden, August 13 - October 31, 2005).
^ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Nationaal Museum voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, inventory BK-NM-11709
^ Arthur E. Popham : Catalog of Drawings of Dutch and Flemish Artists preserved in the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Volume 5: Dutch and Flemish Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries. British Museum, London 1932, p. 82.
↑ Felice Stampfle, Ruth S. Kraemer, Jane Shoaf Turner: Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Pierpont Morgan Library et al., New York et al. 1991, ISBN 0-87598-090-2 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Absalom master
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Master of the Death of Absalom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Late Middle Ages painter
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1475
DATE OF DEATH	after 1475

[Pokorny110-113-1] Erwin Pokorny: The Dresden drawings of the Absalom master. In: Thomas Ketelsen, Uta Neidhardt: The secret of Jan van Eyck. The early Dutch drawings and paintings in Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-06566-0 , pp. 110–113 (exhibition catalog, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Residenzschloss, Dresden, August 13 - October 31, 2005).

[2] Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Nationaal Museum voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, inventory BK-NM-11709

[3] Arthur E. Popham : Catalog of Drawings of Dutch and Flemish Artists preserved in the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Volume 5: Dutch and Flemish Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries. British Museum, London 1932, p. 82.

[4] Felice Stampfle, Ruth S. Kraemer, Jane Shoaf Turner: Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Pierpont Morgan Library et al., New York et al. 1991, ISBN 0-87598-090-2 .