Master of the Altötting doors

St. Nicholas, around 1520–30, hardwood, frame removed, Bavarian National Museum

St. Stephen, around 1520–30, hardwood, frame removed, Bavarian National Museum

The master of the Altötting doors (active around 1515–1520 in Altötting ) was a Bavarian carver of the late Middle Ages . It got its emergency name from the artfully carved portals of the collegiate church St. Philipp and Jakob in Altötting. The south portal shows the birth of Christ and the adoration of the Magi. On the north portal Mary and Ursula, the two church patrons Philip and James, two cycles of prophets and church fathers as well as a multitude of allegories on the virginity of the Mother of God are depicted.

According to the Holy Kinship relief in the Anna Chapel in Neuötting, the master took his artistic starting point from the Landshut sculptor Hans Leinberger , but developed his own style, insofar as the attributed works actually come from a workshop; This can be seen most clearly at the so-called Salmannskirchener Altar of the Freising Diocesan Museum, where two supple Johannes figures in the successor of Hans Leinberger flank a Salvator, whose finely structured robe shows hard metal folds. A repeatedly proposed identification with the carver Matthäus Kriniß can probably not be maintained, since Kriniß acquired citizenship in Mühldorf as an independent master as early as 1511, which cannot be reconciled with the meeting with Hans Leinberger.

Works

• The late Gothic relief of the Holy Kinship - partly rounded - around 1515/1520 in the Anna chapel of the parish church Obernberg am Inn .

literature

• Michaela Christina Neumeister: Studies on the Altöttinger doors and their master. 3 parts. Hamburg 1996 (dissertation, Hamburg, University 1995);
  • Parts 1/2: The pen doors and their master. Content interpretation of the door program.
  • Part 3: List of attributed works.
• To Leinberger. Students and contemporaries (= writings from the museums of the city of Landshut. Vol. 22). Museums of the City of Landshut, Landshut 2007, ISBN 978-3-924943-50-9 , especially pp. 176–188.
• Markus T. Huber: The late Gothic choir furnishings of the Altöttinger collegiate church. Rood screen, choir stalls, high altar. In: Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts. 3. F. Vol. 61. Munich 2010, pp. 23-48.
• Markus T. Huber: Master of Altötting Doors. In: General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database - Online.

Web links

Commons : Master of the Altöttinger Doors  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Masters of the Altöttinger Doors in the catalog of the German National Library