Derick Baegert

Crucifixion, detail: the centurion under the cross; Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid

Derick Baegert [ ˈbaːgərt ] (* around 1440 in Wesel , † around 1515 in Wesel) was an important German painter of the late Gothic period . Under Flemish, Westphalian and Rhenish influence he developed his very own style of extraordinary quality. His works are characterized by a high level of detail in the painting.

life and work

Around 1475 Baegert painted the high altar for the church of the Dominican monastery in Dortmund , today the provost church , where the reredos are still placed. The painting was commissioned by Duke Johann I von Kleve for the monks' convent in the imperial city. A self-portrait of the artist is transmitted on the work , the first known in north-western European painting.

In the following period (1477–1478) the high altar of the Mathenakirche in Wesel, which was destroyed in the Second World War , was built , of which only fragments are preserved in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection . Around 1493/94 he created the court image taking an oath , which originally adorned the council chamber of the Wesel town hall and is now in the Wesel Municipal Museum. Baegert is the author of several other table altars in northwest Germany, including the crucifixion altar from St. Laurenz in Cologne, around 1500, now the Alte Pinakothek , Munich.

Derick Baegert - altarpiece in the provost church

The three-winged altar of Derick Baegert in the Provost Church in Dortmund

Workshop

In addition to his son Jan , who is also considered the painter of the Cappenberg Altar , his nephew Jan Joest (van Kalkar), son of Derick's sister Katharina , also worked in Baegert's workshop . Among other things, Jan Joest made the high altar in the Church of St. Nicolai in Kalkar and a lost high altar for the Werden monastery .

Derik-Baegert Society

The painter's name has been associated with the Derik Baegert Society since 1968. It maintains a studio center in Ringenberg Castle on the Lower Rhine to promote young artists.

literature

• Jürgen Becks, Martin Wilhelm Roelen (ed.): Derick Baegert and his work . Wesel 2011, ISBN 978-3-924380-86-1
• Rolf Fritz:  Baegert, Derick. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 517 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Paul Montag: The Baegert altar in the Dortmund Propsteikirche . In: Heimat Dortmund , 2/2001, magazine of the historical association for Dortmund and the Grafschaft Mark e. V. in connection with the Dortmund City Archives, Essen 2001, pp. 27–31 ISSN  0932-9757
• Gottfried Müller: Simon of Cyrene in the composition of Derick Baegert: Comments on the large triptych of the Dortmund Provost Church . In: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark , 87, Essen 1996 (1997), ISBN 3-88474-543-3 , pp. 97–116
• Wolfgang Rinke: The altar in the Provost Church in Dortmund: a work by the painter Derick Baegert from Wesel; History, art history, image description, image interpretation . Cramers Kunstanstalt, Dortmund 1992. ISBN 3-924302-53-7
• Wolfgang Rinke: Memoria in the picture: The altar-retable of Derick Baegert from Wesel in the provost church of Dortmund . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2004. (= writings of the Heresbach-Stiftung Kalkar, volume 13).

Web links

Commons : Derick Baegert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Derick Baegert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief information on the website of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (English)