Korbach Franciscan Painter

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Korbacher Franciscan painter is the notname a 1455 or 1456-born artist, from the three originally located Franciscan Korbach located triptychs in Korbach and the surrounding area and an altarpiece have received in Cologne, he each with a full-length self-portrait in the habit of Franciscan signed. He died after 1527.

Life

Nothing is known about the artist's life. His paintings are in the tradition of Westphalian panel painting, so that it can be assumed with certainty that he was trained in one of the workshops there, perhaps that of the master of the Schöppinger Altar or that of the master of Liesborn . Here he must have gotten to know examples of Dutch painting, from which he adopted some pictorial inventions and formulas. On the Calvary painting of St. Pantaleon - as the Temple of Jerusalem - a building with a dome is shown, which at that time only adorned Italian churches such as Santa Maria del Fiore or the Pantheon in Rome. So one can assume that he had once traveled to Italy, be it as a pilgrim or an artist.

He created his earliest dated work at the advanced age of 63, so that it is occasionally speculated whether further panel paintings could be ascribed to him.

Works

literature

  • Sabine Maier, Rüdiger Maier, Peter Witzel: The Marien Altar in the Nikolaikirche in Korbach, Korbach, 2008.
  • Esther Meier: The Calvary Table of the Korbach Franciscan. Reconstruction of a problematic case in the history of style, in: Marx, Petra (ed.): Neue Forschungen zur alten Kunst , Münster, 2010, pp. 345–363.
  • Esther Meier: Art production in the Franciscan monasteries in Korbach and Meitersdorf, BoD, Norderstedt, 2009, ISBN 3-8370-8047-1 .
  • Peter Witzel: The Korbach Franciscan painter and his work. Städtisches Heimatmuseum, Korbach 1988, ISBN 3-87077-057-0 , ( Museum Hefte Waldeck-Frankenberg No. 8).

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