Master of the Aachen Madonna (carver)

Museum Schnütgen, St. Cäcilien, north aisle, view of the Aachen Madonna

As a master of Aachen Madonna one is sometimes unnamed known carver called that in 1230 the wooden figure of a enthroned Madonna and Child , known as Aachen Madonna has created. The approximately 103 centimeter high oak sculpture was completely gilded and set with precious stones. Gilding and stones were lost over the centuries and the figure was then painted.

The Aachen Madonna is now in the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne.

In the history of art , a medieval painter or a wood carving artist of the 15th century are sometimes referred to as the master of the Aachen Madonna . These have no connection whatsoever with the carver of the Madonna.

literature

Christian Beutler : The Aachen Madonna and the crucifix from Nideggen. In: Aachener Kunstblätter. AKB. Vol. 17/18, 1958/1959, ISSN 0515-0612 , pp. 42-46.
Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen , Dagmar Täube (Ed.): The Middle Ages in 111 masterpieces from the Museum Schnütgen Cologne. Selection catalog. Greven, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7743-0341-X .

Individual evidence

↑ GOD BECOMES HUMAN. CHRIST AND HIS FAMILY the Aachen Madonna on museenkoeln.de, accessed on September 9, 2013
↑ Aachener Madonna , Cologne, around 1230, oak 102 × 50 × 43.5 cm, Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, inv. No. A 15
^ Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber: Handbook of wood and metal cuts of the XV. Century. Volume 2: woodcuts. Volume 2: With representations of the Holy Trinity, God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Virgin and Mother of God Mary, No. 736 - 1173. Much increased revision of the Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal, which has been supplemented up to the most recent finds au XVe siècle. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1926.

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Aachen Madonna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Picture carver
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	13th Century

[1] GOD BECOMES HUMAN. CHRIST AND HIS FAMILY the Aachen Madonna on museenkoeln.de, accessed on September 9, 2013

[2] Aachener Madonna , Cologne, around 1230, oak 102 × 50 × 43.5 cm, Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, inv. No. A 15

[3] Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber: Handbook of wood and metal cuts of the XV. Century. Volume 2: woodcuts. Volume 2: With representations of the Holy Trinity, God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Virgin and Mother of God Mary, No. 736 - 1173. Much increased revision of the Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal, which has been supplemented up to the most recent finds au XVe siècle. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1926.