Korbach Franciscan Painter
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
- The winged altar of St. Nikolai in Korbach, a Marian altar , dated 1518. The main panel shows the Adoration of the Three Kings , a subject appropriate to the status of long-distance merchants, whose patron, St. Nicholas of Myra , is at the intersection of the streets of Cologne to Leipzig and from Frankfurt am Main to Bremen church was consecrated. The composition of the picture shows striking similarities with the main picture of the Columba Altar by Rogier van der Weyden . On the wings are depicted: on the inside the Annunciation , the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , the birth of Christ and the offering of Jesus in the temple and on the outside Mary as Mother of God and St. Catherine of Alexandria . The predella and tracery are lost.
- The Franciscan altar in Nieder-Waroldern , dated 1519, originally created for the Korbach Franciscan monastery with the Descent from the Cross as the main panel and scenes from the life of St. Francis on the wings inside as well as the portrait of St. Francis and St. Bernardine of Siena Outside. The predella has been lost since 1938.
- The image of the Calvary in the Church of St. Pantaleon in Cologne, not dated, probably around 1520. The main image of an altar that has otherwise not survived and was probably brought to Cologne after the Reformation .
- The crucifixion altar of St. Kilian's Church in Korbach. The work, dated 1527, was created by the artist at the age of 71. The outer wings show Christ as the Man of Sorrows and St. John (Evangelist) on their outside, the inside the Apostles John, Andrew, Peter, Paul, Simon Zelotes and Bartholomäus as well as John the Baptist and Jesus as Salvator Mundi . When open, we see the Calvary with Jesus on the cross on the main panel, on the wings from the Passion: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane , Jesus in front of Pilate , the flagellation of Jesus and the crowning of thorns. The tracery and the predella with depictions of the Passover Supper and the Last Supper have also been preserved on this altar .
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).
Web links
- St. Kilian, Korbach: http://regiowiki.hna.de/H%C3%A4user_in_Korbach:_St._Kilian
- St. Nikolai, Korbach: http://regiowiki.hna.de/H%C3%A4user_in_Korbach:_St._Nikolai
- Church of Nieder-Waroldern: http://regiowiki.hna.de/Kirche_Nieder-Waroldern
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SURNAME | Korbach Franciscan Painter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1455 or 1456 |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1527 |