Master of the Antwerp Crucifixion

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As a master of the Antwerp Crucifixion one is Flemish painter called, of about 1520 in Antwerp worked. The artist, who is not known by name, is named after his painting of the Crucifixion of Christ, now exhibited in the Antwerp Maagdenhuis Museum. The master is a representative of a style which the members of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke, who are summarized in art history under the term Antwerp Mannerists , represented at the beginning of the 16th century. These painters are at the transition from Gothic to Renaissance .

The master of the Antwerp crucifixion got his emergency name from the art historian Max J. Friedländer . As part of his theories and investigations into the Antwerp Mannerists, he had suggested the image of the crucifixion stylistically as the core work of a group of works created by one and the same master.

In more recent research, an identification then took shape and it was proposed to identify the master of the Antwerp crucifixion with Adrian van Overbeck , whose creative period can be proven on the basis of written sources, for example from 1513 with a contract for the Anne's altar in the provost church of St. Maria in Kempen (Lower Rhine) and through his participation in 1521 with his workshop at the Golden Miracle , the largest preserved winged altar in Antwerp, today in St. Petri in Dortmund.

literature

  • Max J. Friedländer: The Antwerp Mannerists from 1520 , Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections 36 (1915), pp. 65–91
  • Max J. Friedländer: The Dutch Mannerists . Leipzig 1921
  • Max J. Friedländer: The Old Dutch Painting, The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrandt (Volume 11). Leiden 1934

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. G. Hoffmann: The Anne Altar of Adrian van Overbeck in the Propsteikirche in Kempen - the work and workshop of an Antwerp mannerist . In: W. Hansmann and G. Hoffmann: Late Gothic on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish and Flemish winged altars in the light of new research. (Contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 35), Cologne 1998, pp. 117–295.
  2. ↑ B. Welzel, T. Lentes, H. Schlie (eds.): The Golden Miracle in the Dortmund Petrikirche Image Use and Image Production in the Middle Ages (Dortmund Medieval Research; Volume 2), Bielefeld 2003
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Antwerp Crucifixion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1520
DATE OF DEATH after 1520