Master of the Goslar Sibyls

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As a master of Goslar Sibyllen is unnamed painter referred to the 1501-1515 cycle with emperors, Sibyls and saints in Huldigungssaal the town hall of Goslar has created. This former council chamber with its painting is a particularly good example of profane spatial art from the late Gothic period in Germany, with signs of an incipient renaissance in the art of the time. A comparable work of profane art was created by his also unknown contemporary, the master of the Last Judgment of Lüneburg .

Homage hall in the town hall of Goslar

The tribute hall is about 7.30 meters wide, 7.30 meters long and 3.30 meters high. In this council chamber, the master completely lined the walls, ceiling and window niches with panel paintings. Using the technique of oil on wood, they depict the proclamation and scenes from the life of Jesus , as well as evangelists and twelve prophets . Eleven emperors and twelve sibyls are alternately depicted, almost life-size, the master is named after the latter.

In the meantime, in 2014, Barbara Ehrt presented a new, extensive iconographic interpretation of the image program. With the help of the Ara-Coeli legend, she proves that the kneeling man on the west side of the room, who was previously referred to in the specialist literature as "bourgeois" or "mayor", is a twelfth emperor. The profile of the kneeling shows a strong resemblance to that of Hans Burgkmair the Elder. J. made a state portrait of Emperor Friedrich III. (* 1415 - † 1493). This may result in an earlier date of creation, at least for the wall paintings. It can also be assumed that the north-western extension of the Goslar town hall and the so-called tribute hall located in it originally had an exclusively sacred function. It may have been a councilor chapel. The name Trinity Chapel then referred not only to the small, lockable apse, but to the entire room. This is indicated by the stone cross on the roof gable, the figure of the Madonna above the entrance and the representation of the wall paintings reinterpreted by Ehrt.

As part of Goslar's old town, the hall has been a World Heritage Site since 1992 .

Attempts at identification

The master of the Goslar Sibyls could possibly have been the main master of the older Franconian school, the painter Michael Wolgemut or at least one of his students. This was and is controversial to this day and from the work of Michael Wolgemut "the paintings in the town hall in Goslar, which a local 'Michel Wolgemut' executed in 1501, must be deleted." Thus the identity of the Master of the Goslar Sibyls remains unknown.

literature

  • Master of the Goslar Sibyls . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary Of Art . Oxford University Press 2002 (English)
  • C. Wolf (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , Issue 2–3: II. Administrative region Hildesheim. 1st and 2nd city of Goslar . JCR Mohr 1901
  • Gisela Goldberg : The tribute hall in the town hall of Goslar . Dissertation University of Munich 1960
  • Jürgen Lehmler, Eva Maria Lehmler, Peter Königsfeld: The paintings in the tribute hall of the Goslar town hall , in: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Restoration of cultural monuments. Examples from the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony (= reports on preservation of monuments , supplement 2), Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Hameln: Niemeyer, 1989, ISBN 3-87585-152-8 , pp. 213-218
  • Detlef Gadesmann: The tribute hall in the Goslar town hall - a late Gothic interior and its painting . In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony, Vol. 14 (1994) pp. 60–64
  • Barbara Ehrt: A twelfth emperor in the tribute hall? A new iconographic interpretation of the late Gothic panel paintings in Goslar town hall. Part 1 . In: Unser Harz No. 5, 2014, pp. 83–110 ( digital copy )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Lehmler et al .: The late Gothic paintings in the tribute hall and in the Trinity Chapel of the Goslar town hall . Restoration of cultural monuments, 1989 online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at baufachinformation.de, as seen April 26, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baufachinformation.de  
  2. ↑ Wolgemut, Michael . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 16, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 731.
  3. ↑ so H. Bergner: Handbook of civil art antiquities - first volume . EA sailor 1906
  4. ↑ W. v. Seidlitz .:  Wolgemut, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 118-122.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Goslar Sibyls
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sibylle Master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anonymous painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century