Mannheim painter

Name vase, oinochoe of type VII, by the Mannheim painter: three Amazons with their arches, an owl on the neck, the symbol of the goddess Athena and thus the city of Athens .

As Mannheim painter , a painter of vases will Attic - red-figure style called. He was active between 460 and 440 BC. BC, in classical times .

The Mannheim painter got his emergency name from the most important researcher of Attic vase painting , John D. Beazley . His name vase found in Orvieto is now in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim (inventory number 61). It is like all surviving works of the painter a Oinochoe which, like almost all decorated by him vessels from that of Adrienne Lezzi-Misty as M-pottery was manufactured named ceramist. The "M" in the potter's emergency name stands for Mannheim painters . The oinochoes are mainly pitchers of the Attic type VII , which the M-potter interpreted in a completely new way and the Mannheim painter decorated in a new way. It showed a wide range of topics, even if the comparatively small vase shape did not offer much space. In addition to a few figures, floral elements in the handle zone are of particular importance. It shows farewell scenes, such as warriors' farewells , but also other warrior scenes, Amazons , maenads , libation scenes and once the Persian king with the queen and a servant. With his high-quality drawings, he follows the tradition of Polygnotus , which he surpasses with his fine painting style. All works were found in Italy, mostly in Etruscan graves, if their origin is known today . Today around 15 to 20 vases have been preserved that were assigned to the painter, his workshop or his immediate environment. The Mannheim painter was, like the M-Potter for the S-Potter , the teacher of the even more important Schuwalow painter . Both continued the workshop tradition of their predecessors.

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, pp. 1065-1066
Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter : The Shuvalov Painter. A jug workshop from the Parthenon period , von Zabern, Mainz 1976 ( Research on ancient ceramics, Series II: Kerameus. Volume 2), ISBN 3-8053-0080-8 , pp. 91–92. 100-101
John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The classical time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 48). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1262-8 , especially p. 101.

Web links

Commons : Mannheimer Maler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Mannheim painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mannheim painter; Painter from Mannheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Attic red-figure vase painter
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.