Braunschweig monogramist
The Braunschweiger Monogrammist is an unnamed known Dutch Renaissance - painter of the first half of the 16th century.
Naming and question of identity
The name "Braunschweiger Monogrammist" goes back to the monogrammed painting Das Große Gastmahl (actually The Parable of the Great Banquet ), which is located in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig and bears the characteristic monogram. So far, however, it has not been possible to clarify the identity of the artist without contradiction, especially since the monogram itself is no longer clearly legible, so that the artist is only known by his emergency name . Today the majority of opinions tend to suggest that it could be Jan van Amstel . Earlier it was also Jan Sanders van Hemessen drawn on the short list.
Silke Gatenbröcker, curator of the museum, summarizes the state of knowledge about the well-known oeuvre of the monogrammist in the following words:
- “All paintings ... can only be assigned to (the artist) on the basis of stylistic observations. This painter must be considered one of the most important precursors of the famous Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. look at. The combination of letters in the monogram and various complicated art-historical inferences led to the assumption that it was the painter Jan van Amstel. Jan van Amstel worked with the Antwerp master Pieter Coecke van Aelst , who in turn was the father-in-law and probably also the teacher of Pieter Bruegel. " ( Lit .: cf. Gatenbröcker, p. 11ff.)
monogram
According to Silke Gatenbröcker:
- “It is a complex, very small monogram, which is unfortunately not clearly recognizable due to the somewhat damaged surface of the painting, made up of several interlaced letters: An S and perhaps an A are inscribed in a central letter M, clearly recognizable above the M a I / J and under the M a V. "
Art historical classification
In addition to genre-like picture themes, the artist also depicted biblical scenes.
As a forerunner of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. he was probably of great influence on its realism.
Works
In addition to the painting The Great Banquet already mentioned, there is another work by this painter in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, “Away from the fair”. Others can be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam , the Louvre in Paris , the Städel in Frankfurt am Main , the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and the Kunstmuseum Basel .
The brothel scene, also known as “loose society”, is located in Berlin and was created around 1540. Above all, the many inscriptions on the wall are striking and indicate the moralizing significance of the picture. The sentence “Dat dinck dat di Dochter dalen”, for example, can be translated as “The thing that lets the daughter sink down” and alludes to the lost innocence of women. Erect male sexual organs form the letter D of the sentence.
literature
- Silke Gatenbröcker, Andreas W. Vetter: No day like any other. Feast and amusement in Dutch art, ca. 1520–1630. Exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, September 12th to December 8th, 2002. Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 3-922279-56-2 , pp. 11-13.
- Dietrich Schubert : The paintings of the Braunschweiger monogrammist. A contribution to the history of Dutch painting in the 16th century . DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1970. ISBN 3-7701-0550-8
- Matthias Ubl: The Braunschweig monogrammist. Pioneer of Dutch genre painting before Bruegel . Imhoff, Petersburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0030-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Ubl: The Braunschweiger Monogrammist. Pioneer of Dutch genre painting before Bruegel, Petersberg 2014
- ↑ Braunschweig monogrammist . Brothel scene in the Städel's collection index.
- ^ Matthias Ubl: The Braunschweiger Monogrammist. Pioneer of Dutch genre painting before Bruegel, Petersberg 2014. p. 323.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braunschweig monogramist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |