Hermen Rode

Luke altar

High altar of the Nikolaikirche from the workshop of Hermen Rode

Hermen Rode (* around 1430 ; † 1504 ) was a German painter.

meaning

Rode was possibly the son of the goldsmith of the same name Hermen Rode from Lübeck , who was mentioned here in 1415 and 1420. He is documented as a painter of the late Middle Ages , especially of altars , for the period of life mentioned and was on a par with Bernt Notke in his time , also for the Hanseatic art export from Lübeck to the entire Baltic Sea region . There are several wills by Hermen Rode dated April 29, 1485, November 19, 1494 and February 14, 1500, but it is not possible to say with certainty whether they come from this painter. This had a brother Cort Rode. Another document shows that a painter Hermen Rode was married to a woman Gertrudt, who was probably the daughter of the Lübeck canon Alhard Spaen, who mentioned her in his will.

Works (selection)

• In 1468, a six meter wide altar for the Nikolaikirche reached Stockholm , which is now in the museum there.
• His best-known work is the high altar for the St. Nikolai Church in Reval , Estonia , which was purchased in 1482 by the Brotherhood of Blackheads for 1,250 marks.
• The Lukas Altarpiece , originally from St. Catherine's Church in Lübeck , is now one of the central collection items on the altars of the Museum of Art and Cultural History in the St. Anne's Museum .
• Emperor Constantine , around 1480 in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
• Altar wing in the Ratzeburg Cathedral .
• 1494 and 1501: A large two-part altarpiece each of the crucifixion of Christ in the Marienkirche in Lübeck.

literature

• Adolph Goldschmidt : Rode and Notke, two Lübeck painters of the 15th century . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst . New episode, 12th year. EA Seemann, Leipzig / Berlin 1901, p. 31-39, 55-60 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Georg Nordensvan : Rode, Hermann . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 23 : Retzius – Ryssland . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 578 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Axel Holck : Rode, Hermann . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Renden – Schinkel . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 270 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Rode, Hermen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 459-460 .
• Anja Rasche: Works by the Lübeck painter Hermen Rode in the Baltic Sea region. In: Contributions to the art history of East Central Europe. Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-87969-296-3 , p. 126 ff.
• Anja Rasche: Studies on Hermen Rode. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-846-0 .

Web links

Commons : Hermen Rode  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolph Goldschmidt : Rode and Notke, two Lübeck painters of the 15th century . In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst . New episode, 12th year. EA Seemann, Leipzig / Berlin 1901, p. 33 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ IV. Hermann Rode . In: Association for Lübeck history and antiquity (ed.): Mittheilungen . No. 10 . F. Grautoff, Lübeck 1902, p. 45–50 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Schäfer p. 149.
4. ↑ Johannes Nöhring: Carved age of the Nikolaikirche in Reval . In: Works of medieval wood sculpture and painting in Livonia and Estonia . J. Nöhring, Lübeck 1892, p. 7–8 , panels VI – XII ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).