Painter from Berlin A 34

Early black-figure Skyphos crater, A-side with swans, B-side with spiral ornaments and swan's heads, around 630 BC BC, found in the Vourvas Tumulus in Attica, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The painter from the pioneering days of Attic black-figure vase painting , with the emergency name Maler von Berlin A 34 , is the first vase painter from Athens of this style who is tangible for science. His works are believed to be around 630 BC. Chr. Dated. Two of his vases were found on Aegina . All of the vases found there in the course of this process came to the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , but were largely destroyed or lost during the Second World War.

The artist is considered to be one of the best representatives of Protoattic vase painting. According to the old tradition, he applied the faces of his figures as outline drawings. The clothing and the decorative rosettes were applied with red and white covering paint. Orientalizing zigzag patterns and rosettes were painted on as ornaments. On some vases he did without the outline drawings and instead applied white paint directly to the black background. The ornamental decoration is the same here as well. Its ornaments are reminiscent of late Corinthian vase painting from the same period. Around 620 BC BC he was probably no longer active, as no signs of other vases designed by him can yet be found. Although he is generally regarded as a pioneer, it was only his successors who would ensure the breakthrough of the black-figure technique in Athens.

The pictures of people by the painter from Berlin A 34 are still in the tradition of pre-black-figure painting, but his pictures of animals are already very much based on those of the masters of that time in Corinth , although they also appear quite stiff and strict. The eponymous vase Berlin A 34 shows a train of several women, which is why the painter was originally referred to as a woman painter . An Attic painter of the red-figure style bears this emergency name today .

Works

Berlin, Collection of Antiquities

A 34 crater

Athens, Kerameikos Museum

Crater 130 • Skyphos Crater 801

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Black-figure Vase-painters . Oxford 1956, p. 1.
John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Painter of Berlin A 34 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The eponymous vase

personal data
SURNAME	Painter from Berlin A 34
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Women painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr.