Kuthner

Kuthner is assumed to be the name of one of the illuminators who painted the Wenceslas Bible around 1400 . Besides Frana, he is the only one of these painters who has inconspicuously signed a few parts of his work on this magnificent Bible. His full name is said to have been known as Nikolaus Kuthner , a name that can be proven among the painters at the court in Prague, and is said to have come to Prague from Saxony around 1387.

Illuminations for a Latin Bible manuscript on parchment from Bohemia from around 1390 are said to come from his hand.

The Wenceslas Bible was then written around 1400. Kuthner probably painted a total of more than 126 of its pages. Like all artists working in the so-called Wenzelswerkstatt , Kuthner followed the instructions, some of which can still be found on the pages, as to which and how a scene should be designed graphically. This indicates his work under a workshop management who coordinated the complete edition of the Wenceslas Bible. Kuthner paints rather conservatively and does not seem to feel obliged to the new soft style in art in his lively and imaginative pictures .

From 1407 Kuthner no longer worked in Prague, but worked in Breslau.

Individual evidence

↑ cf. Gerhard Schmidt : painting until 1450 . In: Karl Maria Swoboda (Ed.): Gotik in Böhmen. History, social history, architecture, sculpture and painting . Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1969, pp. 167–321.
↑ Jiří Fajt (ed.): Charles IV. Emperor by God's grace, art and representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310-1437 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, p. 486f. 489f. ISBN 978-3-422-06598-7 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Prague Castle , February 16 to May 21, 2006.)
^ SUB Goettingen : 2 ° Cod. Ms. theol. 1: 1 Cim
↑ s. Overview of the exhibits and descriptions of the Holy Scriptures exhibition . Bibles and religious texts from 1000 years (on the occasion of the "Year of the Bible"). in the Paulinerkirche , March 9th to April 27th 2003, historical building of the SUB.

↑ Manfred Kramer: King Wenzel. His library, his Bible, his world. Introduction . In: Horst Appuhn (Ed.): Wenzelsbibel. King Wenzel's superb manuscript of the German Bible . ADEVA, Graz 1981, p. 12 (reduced facsimile edition based on the original in the Austrian National Library Vienna, Cod. 2760).

personal data
SURNAME	Kuthner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nikolaus Kuthner (possible name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	medieval illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1387
DATE OF DEATH	after 1407

[1] . Gerhard Schmidt : painting until 1450 . In: Karl Maria Swoboda (Ed.): Gotik in Böhmen. History, social history, architecture, sculpture and painting . Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1969, pp. 167–321.

[2] Jiří Fajt (ed.): Charles IV. Emperor by God's grace, art and representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310-1437 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, p. 486f. 489f. ISBN 978-3-422-06598-7 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Prague Castle , February 16 to May 21, 2006.)

[3] SUB Goettingen : 2 ° Cod. Ms. theol. 1: 1 Cim

[4] s. Overview of the exhibits and descriptions of the Holy Scriptures exhibition . Bibles and religious texts from 1000 years (on the occasion of the "Year of the Bible"). in the Paulinerkirche , March 9th to April 27th 2003, historical building of the SUB.

[5] Manfred Kramer: King Wenzel. His library, his Bible, his world. Introduction . In: Horst Appuhn (Ed.): Wenzelsbibel. King Wenzel's superb manuscript of the German Bible . ADEVA, Graz 1981, p. 12 (reduced facsimile edition based on the original in the Austrian National Library Vienna, Cod. 2760).