Imperialissima master
Imperialissima-Meister is an art-historical emergency name and describes an unknown Low German carver of the late Middle Ages who worked in Lübeck at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century .
The Imperialissima Master got his name in the 20th century from the Swedish art historian Andreas Lindblom . It was named after the inscription under a statue of the Virgin Mary on an altar, which reads Imperialissima virgo Maria . This first carving, which gave the emergency name, is located in an altar in Hald, northeast of Randers on Jutland .
After intensive examination, the Heidelberg art historian Walter Paatz came to the conclusion that the following additional works of the Low German Late Gothic can be assigned to the Imperialissima master in a larger workshop with corresponding assistants:
- The Gregory Mass, a Coronation of Mary and a Crescent Madonna from the Jakobikirche in Lübeck , today in the St. Anne's Monastery in Lübeck ;
- the Rese altar from 1499 from the Marienkirche in Lübeck , now also in the St. Annen Museum;
- Altar figures from Tjustrup and Darum in the Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen;
- the Marien altar with St. Michael and Christoph in the church of Trondenes ;
- an altar in Rapstedt near Aabenraa and two altars in Aventoft ;
- Altar and mercy seat in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ;
The work of the Imperialissima master is derived from Bernt Notke and the production method in his large Lübeck workshop, but also influenced by the master of the Lübeck stone madonnas and the work of Henning von der Heydes . Walter Paatz classifies him as Bernt Notke's main assistant. The sculptor Heinrich Wylsynck , documented as an artist, but without documentary evidence of the work reference, would, according to Paatz's studies, best fit the work of the Imperilissima master in terms of the dates of his life. However, the assignments of Heinrich Wylsynck's works in art history were initially very different.
As a painter, Paatz assigned him the wings of the Rese altar, the paintings of the north side altar in the church of Trondenes in Norway and the outer altar wings in the cathedral in Västerås .
The carved altar from around 1480 in the Keitum St. Severin Church may also come from the school of the Imperialissima master.
literature
- Imperialissima master . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 163-164 .
- Walter Paatz: Bernt Notke and his circle. Berlin 1939, p. 135 ff.
- Brigitte Heise, Hildegard Vogler: The altars of the St. Annen Museum. Lübeck 1993, p. 79 ff.
Web links
- The Imperialissima Meister on the Schleswig-Holstein museum server
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Lindblom (1889–1977), director of the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and the Skansen open-air museum
- ↑ st-severin.de - history of the church Sankt Severin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Imperialissima master |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lübeck carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |