Master of the Bendaschen Madonna

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Master of the Benda Madonna: Saint Dorothea and Saint Barbara. Upper Rhine, around 1490/1500, mixed media on softwood, 95.2 × 70.7 cm (fragment)

As a master of Benda's Madonna or master of the Benda Madonna one is late Gothic painter called, who worked in 1500 in the Upper Rhine. The artist, who is not known by name, was given his emergency name after one of his works that was in the collection of the industrialist and art collector Gustav von Benda in modern times .

style

A relationship between the painting style of the master of the Benda Madonna and Martin Schongauer can be assumed, although this is difficult to prove.

Works (selection)

  • Fragments of a winged altar by the master with a Maria, the associated annunciation angel and the side wings were put together again for the first time in 2001 for the state exhibition in the late Middle Ages on the Upper Rhine
    • Mary of the Annunciation, around 1490/1500. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (as Upper Rhine Master, Master of the Bendaschen Madonna)
    • Altar wing with Saints Barbara and Dorothea, Baden-Baden, Lichtenthal Cistercian Abbey, princely chapel
    • Altar wing with Saints Catherine and Genoveva (Appolonia), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (new acquisitions 2009)
  • Further works in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna could have been made by the master, including a portrait of a man.
  • An attempt is made to identify other surviving works by the master

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Historical and art historical studies (= reconstruction of the arts. Vol. 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-47901-8 , p. 187 (also: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1996).
  2. ↑ Late Middle Ages on the Upper Rhine. Painters and workshops 1450–1525. Part 1: Painters and workshops 1450–1525. (For the Great State Exhibition of Baden-Württemberg, State Art Gallery Karlsruhe, September 2001 - February 2002). Jan Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-0200-9 .
  3. ^ Renate Braunschweig-Ullmann: Mammoth show with Madonnas and unicorns. The two-part state exhibition about the late Middle Ages on the Upper Rhine in Karlsruhe. In: Konradsblatt. Weekly newspaper for the Archdiocese of Freiburg. 30/2001, exhibition review ( online edition 30/2001 ).
  4. ^ Alfred Stange : Painting of the Gothic. Volume 7: Upper Rhine, Lake Constance, Switzerland and Middle Rhine in the period from 1450 to 1500. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1955, p. 27.
  5. ↑ for example Jan Lauts: A new work by the master of the Bendaschen Madonna. In: Wolfgang Hartmann (eds.): Festschrift Klaus Lankheit. May 20, 1973. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-7701-0729-2 , pp. 135-138.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Bendaschen Madonna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late Gothic painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century