Master of Bergmann's Offizin

As a master of Bergmann's Offizin one is wood cutter from the Basel referred to the end of the 15th century. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after illustrations for books that were published by the publisher Johann Bergmann von Olpe and a printing workshop he probably ran. In the late Middle Ages, such book printing shops were also known as print shops and around 1500, together with Johann Froben and Nicolaus Brylinger, Bergmann was one of the leading humanistic publishers and book printers north of the Alps.

Among other things, Bergmann published the works of Sebastian Brant , whose ship of fools was widely used because of the excellent woodcuts. Numerous editions were printed. For Bergmann von Olpe's print 1494, in addition to the woodcuts by the master of the Haintz Narr, more than 70 woodcut templates by the master of the Bergmann shop , seen as the master of the ship of fools, were used.

An attempt was made to recognize the work of a young Albrecht Dürer in these cuts , who was in Basel at the time the book was made. However, the woodcuts by the master of Bergmann's office are said to have also used Martin Schongauer's early copperplate engravings as patterns in drawing and drawing .

The master of Bergmann's office is also said to have supplied the woodcuts for the work Ritter vom Turn des Marquard vom Stein , which Michael Furter printed in Basel.

He was also assigned 126 uncut sticks with drawings for the comedies of Terence in Basel, which is why the master of Bergmann's Offizin is to be equated with the master of Basel Terence . Here, too, Dürer's authorship is suggested.

literature

• Werner Weisbach : The master of Bergmannschen Officin and Albrecht Dürer's relationship to Basel book illustration. A contribution to the history of the German woodcut (= Studies on German Art History. Vol. 6, ISSN  0081-7228 ). Heitz, Strasbourg 1896 (also: Leipzig, university, dissertation, 1896), digitized .
• Friedrich Lippmann: An early drawing by Dürer in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinet. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. Vol. 18, 1897, ISSN  1431-5955 , pp. 181-183.
• Werner Weisbach: The young Dürer. Three studies. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1906.
• Daniel Burckhardt: Dürer and the master of the Bergmann shop. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. Vol. 28, 1907, H. 3, pp. 168-180.
• Friedrich Winkler: Dürer and the illustrations for the ship of fools. The artist's Basel and Strasbourg works and the old German woodcut (= research on German art history. Vol. 36, ZDB -ID 573060-0 ). German Association for Art History, Berlin 1951.
• Herbert Jaumann : Handbook of scholarly culture in the early modern period. Volume 1: Bio-Bibliographical Repertory. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004, ISBN 3-11-016069-2 .
• Romy Günthart: German-language literature in early Basel book printing. (approx. 1470–1510) (= studies and texts on the Middle Ages and early modern times. Vol. 11). Waxmann, Münster et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1712-0 (Also: Zurich, University, habilitation paper, 2005).