Echternach masters

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Binding of the Codex aureus Epternacensis , the Gospels of Echternach, with the ivory tablet of Christ in the middle

An early Romanesque ivory carver who worked in the early 10th century is known as the Echternach master . He probably created the ivory panel of the binding of the Gospel of Echternach in a monastery workshop .

His work is an example of how, under the rule of the Ottonians, art broke away from the late antique Roman models preferred in the Carolingian period and developed an independent, stricter, simpler direction under the influence of Byzantine formal language. With this change in style, the carving artists such as the Echternach masters orientate themselves on the illumination of their time. B. the miniatures of the Reichenau school or then those of the Echternach painting school itself.

Works (selection)

  • Crucifixion of Christ with Longinus . Book cover made of ivory, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  • Christ enthroned with four evangelists . Book cover made of ivory, Berlin, State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage

literature

  • Uwe Geese: Medieval sculpture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-153-9 , ( Imhof-Kulturgeschichte ), p. 22 ff.
  • Hardo Hilg: The manuscripts of the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg . Volume 2: The Latin Medieval Manuscripts . Part 2: Hs 22922-198390. Appendix . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-447-02600-6 , HS 156122.
  • Hans Jantzen : Ottonian art . Münchner Verlag, Munich 1947.
  • Karl Oettinger: The ivory carver of the Echternach Codex Aureus and the sculpture under Heinrich III. (1039-56) . In: Yearbook of the Berlin museums. New series Volume 2, 1960, ISSN  0075-2207 , pp. 34-54.
  • Wilhelm Vöge : A German carver of the 10th century . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections. Volume 20, 1899, ZDB -ID 217867-9 , pp. 117-124; Reprinted in: Erwin Panofsky (Ed.): Sculptors of the Middle Ages. Collected studies by Wilhelm Vöge . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1958, pp. 1-10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Echternach Masters . In: PW Hartmann: The great art dictionary . BeyArs 1996.
  2. ↑ cf. z. BAM Cust: The Ivory-workers of the Middle Ages . Bell and Sons, 1902, p. 120 (English)
  3. ^ Ottonian art . In: PW Hartmann: The great art dictionary . BeyArs 199.6
  4. ^ DH Turner: Early Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts in England . British Museum 1965 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Echternach masters
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivory carver
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century or 10th century
DATE OF DEATH 10th century or 11th century