Jena painter

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Peleus and Atalante, bowl, around 390 BC Chr.
Paris and Helena as a happy couple, Hydria around 390 BC Chr.

The Jena painter (also Jena painter or painter of the Jena bowls ) was a Greek vase painter who lived around 400/390 BC. Was active in Athens . He painted mainly drinking vessels in the Attic - red-figure style.

The stylistic and chronological classification of the vase painter was first carried out by the British archaeologist John D. Beazley . Beazley chose the emergency name The Jena Painter because a large part of the surviving fragments of the painter is in the possession of the University of Jena . The majority of the 91 preserved vessels by the Jena painter were discovered in Athens in 1892 in the area of ​​the ancient Kerameikos pottery district . This extraordinary workshop find allows a multitude of conclusions to be drawn about the operation and functioning of a pottery workshop in classical Athens. In addition, many vessels that were exported from Athens to the western Mediterranean, for example to Etruria and North Africa, can be assigned to the Jena painter.

Two employees are assigned to the Jena painter, whose work is designated as styles B and C. The Jena painter mostly painted the inside pictures of the bowls and the assistant in style B painted the outside of the vessels. The drawings of the second employee (style C), on the other hand, are found on shell skyphoi and footless bowls. In contrast to the rather cursory drawings by the assistants, the Jena painter's style of painting stands out with its fine lines and lively image design.

The Q-painter and the Diomedes-painter also belonged to the workshop of the Jena painter .

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic red-figure vase-painters . Oxford 1963, pp. 1511-1516.
  • John Boardman : Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period . London 1989, pp. 169f.
  • Verena Paul-Zinserling : The Jena painter and his circle. On the iconology of an Attic bowl workshop around 400 BC Chr. Mainz 1994.
  • Chair for Classical Archeology and Collection of Ancient Cabarets at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena ( Angelika Geyer (Hrsg.)): The Jena painter. A pottery workshop in classical Athens. Wiesbaden 1996. ISBN 3-88226-864-6
  • Martin Bentz u. a. (Ed.): TonArt. Virtuosity of ancient pottery technology , Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010. ISBN 9783865686107 , p.

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SURNAME Jena painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jena painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.