Johann von Soest (painter)

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Johann von Soest was a painter in the second half of the 15th century who worked in Münster and probably also in Soest .

Johann von Soest was influenced by the Cologne and Soest schools. For his part, he passed this influence on beyond Westphalia to northern Germany, in particular to his assistant, the so-called master of 1489 , as well as to the master of the Lippborg Passion , to Hinrik Funhof , to the so-called master of 1473 and to Hermen Rode .

Johann von Soest was identified in later art history as the painter of the Liesborn Altar of the Liesborn Monastery near Münster. The painter of this work was previously unknown and was described under the emergency name Meister von Liesborn .

The high altar of the Liesborn monastery created by Johann von Soest was consecrated by Abbot Heinrich von Kleve in 1465 along with four other side altars. With the secularization of the monastery, the altars were sawn into individual paintings and sold under the French occupation around 1807. Some essential parts ended up in the holdings of the National Gallery in London, others in the collection of the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster.

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Fragments of the crucifixion of Christ in the Westphalian State Museum, Münster:

  • Master von Liesborn 001.jpg
  • Master of Liesborn 002.jpg
  • Master of Liesborn 003.jpg

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is in part believed to be identical to the master of Liesborn.
  2. ^ Master of Liesborn . 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. 198–199 (with references to other works prior to 1950).
personal data
SURNAME Johann von Soest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century