Bohemian Painting School

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Master von Raigern (Rajhrad): Nativity, around 1420

The Bohemian School of Painting is sometimes summarized in art history as the Gothic painters of the 14th century who were able to work in Bohemia from 1346/1349 , because Charles IV and Wenceslaus IV at that time promoted Prague and its surroundings as a cultural center. First z. B. as book and wall painters in the service of their courtly patrons , artists of the school from the Byzantine formal tradition began to develop their own Gothic painting style under the influence of Northern Italian and French masters . Her panel paintings and other works for churches and monasteries in the region also influence, for example, the Nuremberg painting of their time, a development that can show the supra-regional, Europe-wide importance of Bohemian painting. After Wenceslas' deposition in 1400 and his death in 1419, however, this influence quickly declined.

Works

Significant examples of the book illumination works of a Bohemian school of painting are, for example, the Liber viaticus from around 1355 and the Wenceslas Bible from around 1390 , which possibly brought the Flemish style to the region. There are further z. For example, the following masters are included in the school, who begin to develop religious themes with detailed representations in their altars and strive to dissolve more conventional and rigid forms of previous painting styles through individual characterization and lively gestures:

  • Liber viaticus by Johann von Neumark: Bohemian School of Painting, around 1355

  • Meister von Hohenfurth: Birth of Christ, around 1350

  • Master Theodoric of Prague, St. Elisabeth, around 1360

  • Master of the Wittingau Altar: Entombment of Christ, around 1380

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See e.g. B. Bohemian Painting School . In: Peter W. Hartmann: Das große Kunstlexikon (accessed online: February 2010) or Bohemian School . In: Gordon Campbell (Ed.): Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance . University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 0-19-860175-1 .
  2. ↑ See also Jörg K. Hoensch : Geschichte Böhmens. From the Slavic conquest to the present (Beck's Historical Library). 3rd edition. C. H. Beck, Munich 1997, p. 102, ISBN 3-406-41694-2 .
  3. ↑ Werner Hofmann : The Fischer Lexicon, Vol. 23: Fine Art III . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1960.
  4. ↑ See e.g. B. Radio Praha : Tourist consultation hour - Monastery Tepla / Teplá. May 2, 1998 (German).