Lamentation of Christ (Bernhard Strigel)

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Lamentation of Christ (Bernhard Strigel)
Lamentation of Christ
Bernhard Strigel , 1509
Tempera on wood
119 × 70 cm
Antoniterkloster Memmingen

Lamentation of Christ is an epitaph painted on wood by the painter Bernhard Strigel from 1509 and is now exhibited in the Strigel Museum in the former Antonite monastery in Memmingen in Upper Swabia .

description

In the center of the picture is the kneeling in front of the body of Jesus, Mary, the mother of God . She is surrounded by a nimbus and dressed in a red robe. Her face is tilted slightly to the left and looks down on the dead body of Jesus. Her hands are folded and point to his head, which is also surrounded by a nimbus. Jesus is placed on a white linen cloth. The wounds in his feet and side are clearly visible, his loins are covered by a linen cloth. His head points slightly to the left to his mother Maria. A banner is painted in the picture between the two. The text, a slightly shortened quote from Bonaventura's Officium de Compassione Beatae Mariae Virginis , reads:

Dilectum michi filium / subtrahere nolite.
Si sepeliri debeat / mecum sepelite.

My beloved son / do not take away!
If he must be buried, / bury him with me.

The hill Golgotha ​​can be seen in the background. The two crucified with Jesus are still hanging on their crosses, Jesus' cross is empty. On the right in the background is the city wall of Jerusalem with a gate, behind it a wooded mountain. On the left is a bare landscape with a single tree. On the left edge of the picture below the Jesus there is a coat of arms, under which a tablet is painted.

Date and inscription

The picture is dated and has the donor's coat of arms in the lower left corner.

Anno dni (= Domini) 1509 died the E (h) rba (re) man (n) hans kärler uff sanct marx day (= April 25th) the mesner who was sanct Martins kierchen was buried here in this chapel got merciful bey AMEN.

Based on Christof Schorer's chronicle from 1660, it is known that Hans Kärler was buried in the St. Peter's Chapel of the Antoniterhaus.

literature

  • Frank O. Büttner: Imitatio Pietatis. Motifs of Christian iconography as models for similarization. Mann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7861-1345-9 , fig. 103.
  • Gertrud Otto : Ivo and Bernhard Strigel, Hans Thoman. Additions to questions of Memmingen art history. In: Memminger Geschichtsblätter. 1967, ISSN  0539-2896 , pp. 23-28.
  • Karl Voll, Heinz Braune, Hans Buchheit : Catalog of the paintings of the Bavarian National Museum (= catalogs of the Bavarian National Museum Munich. Vol. 8, ZDB -ID 238850-9 ). Publishing house of the Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1908.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original quote see here
  2. ↑ Melanie Thierbach: Guide through the Strigel Museum Memmingen. City of Memmingen, Memmingen 1998, p. 62.

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