Master HL

With Master HL (also Master HL or master of Breisach high altar ), an early 16th century mainly active in the Upper Rhine woodcarver called and graphic artist. Works by HL from 1511 to 1533 are documented.

Detail of the high altar in the Breisach Minster: Mary's coronation and God the Father

Altar of the Church of St. Michael in Niederrotweil

The Hll. John the Evangelist and the Baptist. Around 1520–1525, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

The full name of the master is unknown, the emergency name refers to his initials HL. His main work is signed with these, the high altar from 1526 in the Stephansmünster in Breisach am Rhein . In addition, seven woodcuts and 24 copperplate engravings with his initials are known. The style of the master HL shows an "exuberant", almost baroque formal language of the late Gothic and points to the transition from Gothic to Renaissance .

Master HL could possibly be Hans Loy from Freiburg. This assumption can already be found in the book Die deutsche Kunst der Dürerzeit (1940) by Wilhelm Pinder . According to Pinder, it should be a suggestion by the art historian Heinrich Alfred Schmid , a suggestion that Herbert Schindler repeated. The life and creative stations of Master HL cannot be reconstructed without contradictions. The stations in Breisach, Niederrotweil, Freiburg im Breisgau, Donaueschingen , St. Blasien , Ulm and Regensburg are secured . This corresponds to the east-west line between Colmar and Vienna , where the master HL must have seen works, as style affinities can be determined. Even Wall at Melk could have one of his stations, as in the local sanctuary wall a similarly detailed carved located.

Works (selection)

High altar of the master HL, 1526. Stephansmünster zu Breisach
High altar, around 1516 to 1519. St. Michael in Niederrotweil
Anne's Altar in Freiburg Minster (under the influence of HL)
Adam and Eve Group, Freiburg, Augustinian Museum
The Hll. John the Evangelist and the Baptist . Around 1520–1525, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

literature

Theodor Demmler : The master of the Breisach high altar. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. 35, 1914, pp. 103-135.
Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth : Master of the Breisach high altar (monogrammist HL). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 709 f. ( Digitized version ).
Herbert Schindler : The Master HL = Hans Loy? Work and rediscovery. (= The Blue Books). Langewiesche, KönigsteiN 1981, ISBN 3-7845-4690-0 .
Hermann Brommer : Was Hans Loy the Master HL? In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 100, 1980, pp. 161–202 ( digitized version ).
Velten Wagner: The master HL on the Upper Rhine and Danube . Tuduv, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88073-467-4 .

Fiction

Antoinette R. Wildi-Lang: The Secret of Master HL An artist biography from the Middle Ages . Battert Verlag, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-87989-406-X (Biographical novel; Book on demand).

Web links

Commons : Meister HL - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Central Office for Educational Media in the Internet eV to the high altar in the choir of the Münsterkirche zu Breisach (accessed September 9, 2009)
Website of the Central Office for Educational Media in the Internet eV on the altar of St. Michaels Church in Niederrotweil (accessed September 9, 2009)

Individual evidence

↑ Tobias Burg: The signature. Forms and functions from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. (= Art History. Volume 80). Lit-Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9859-5 , p. 239.
^ Headquarters for educational media on the Internet eV: Breisach - carved altar in the choir of the cathedral church . Website no year, accessed September 9, 2009.
^ Herbert Schindler: The carved altar, masterpieces and masters in South Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. Pustet, Regensburg 1978, pp. 63, 169 ff.
^ Hermann Metz: The altar of the master HL in the Breisacher St. Stephansmünster . (= Our Münster - series of publications by the Münsterbauverein Breisach). Münsterbauverein, Breisach 2007, p. 8.

personal data
SURNAME	Master HL
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Master HL
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	medieval wood sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH	after 1533

[1] Tobias Burg: The signature. Forms and functions from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. (= Art History. Volume 80). Lit-Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9859-5 , p. 239.

[2] Headquarters for educational media on the Internet eV: Breisach - carved altar in the choir of the cathedral church . Website no year, accessed September 9, 2009.

[3] Herbert Schindler: The carved altar, masterpieces and masters in South Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. Pustet, Regensburg 1978, pp. 63, 169 ff.

[4] Hermann Metz: The altar of the master HL in the Breisacher St. Stephansmünster . (= Our Münster - series of publications by the Münsterbauverein Breisach). Münsterbauverein, Breisach 2007, p. 8.