Hirschfeld painter

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The Hirschfeld Painter's crater discovered in 1872 in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

The Hirschfeld painter is a Greek vase painter who is not known by name and who worked in the period from 750 to 735 BC. Was active in Attica .

The works of the Hirschfeld painter belong to the late Geometric style (SG Ib). His emergency name is derived from the archaeologist Gustav Hirschfeld , who first described a work by the painter in 1872. The large crater found on Kerameikos , the so-called “ Hirschfeld Crater ”, is now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens . As was common in the Geometric Period, the Hirschfeld painter was probably both a potter and a vase painter. The crater with a spout and the squat neck - handle amphora were probably invented in his workshop . His style is reminiscent of that of the Dipylon painter , who began a little earlier , but his double and multiple meanders run in the opposite direction. His figures often have a recessed space for the eyes, which are also marked there with a point in the center, his heads appear beak-like with their tips, which are intended to denote either the nose or the chin. The rib cage is formed by a triangle with concave sides, the legs are curved. Women are characterized by breasts and tufts of hair. His billy goats look forward, their eyes are clay-ground. He no longer shows fight scenes.

literature

  • John Nicolas Coldstream : Greek geometric pottery: a survey of ten local styles and their chronology , 1968, p. 41ff.
  • Gustav Hirschfeld: Lettera ad A. Conze , in: Annali dell 'Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica , 1872, pp. 131–181.
  • Steven L. Hyatt: The Greek vase , Michigan 1981, p. 30.
  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum , Volume 79 (1995), p. 22.
  • Thomas Mannack : Greek vase painting. An introduction . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, p. 76f. ISBN 3-8062-1743-2 .

supporting documents

  1. Inventory number 990

Web links

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