Master of the Bible of Konrad von Vechta

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The medieval illuminator who painted a Bible that belonged to Archbishop Konrad von Vechta from Prague between 1400 and 1403 is called the master of the Bible by Konrad von Vechta . Vechta was a very wealthy cleric and came to Bohemia from northern Germany around 1402; he had commissioned the two-volume, extremely richly illuminated work in Antwerp in the Netherlands. The Latin text was completed after an inscription in 1400 and then the work was magnificently painted. It is now in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.

One can see from contemporary and subsequent paintings in Bohemia that new artistic impulses came to Prague through works such as that of the master of the Bible by Konrad von Vechta , which was already given under the reign of Charles IV and his son King Wenceslaus IV had developed an independent cultural center in Europe. If at the time of Vechta a group of Bohemian painting followed the style of the master of the Wittinggau Altar , who worked in Bohemia, another group was simultaneously influenced by new illuminations from the Netherlands, just as the Antwerp Bible of Konrad von Vechta was able to convey to Prague . As can also be seen in parts of the paintings in the Wenceslas Bible , which was painted in the Wenceslas workshop in Prague around 1400 , this new realistic style of painting had found some important successors such as the Ezra master .

literature

  • Jiří Fajt (ed.): Charles IV. Emperor by God's grace. Art and Representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310–1437. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2006, ISBN 3-422-06598-9 (exhibition catalog Prague and New York).
  • Karl-Georg Pfändtner: The Influence and Spread of the Bohemian Decoration System to Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Production in Vienna and Nuremberg. In: Manuscripta. Vol. 50, No. 2, 2006, ISSN  0025-2603 , pp. 301-316, doi : 10.1484 / J.MSS.2.302065 .
  • Milada Studničková: The Bible of Konrad of Vechta: Stylistic Change in Bohemian Book Illumination. In: Manuscripta. Vol. 50, No. 2, 2006, pp. 269-299, doi : 10.1484 / J.MSS.2.302063 .
  • Imre Takács (Ed.): Sigismundus Rex Et Imperator. Art and culture at the time of Sigismund of Luxembourg 1387–1437. Philipp von Zabern 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3626-8 , (exhibition catalog Budapest and Luxembourg 2006).
  • Mojmír S. Frinta: The Master of the Gerona Martyrology and Bohemian Illumination. In: The Art Bulletin. Vol. 46, No. 3, 1964, ISSN  0004-3079 , pp. 283-306.
  • Pavel Kropáček: Malířství doby husitské. Česká desková malba prvé poloviny XV. Století (= Rozpravy České akademie věd a umění. Třída 1, Čís. 94, ZDB -ID 351415-8 ). Česká akademie věd a umění, Prague 1946.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ for example in: Jiří Fajt (Ed.): Karl IV. Kaiser by God's grace. Art and Representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310–1437. 2006.
  2. ↑ Antwerp, Mus. Plantin-Moretus, inventory number M15.1-2.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Bible of Konrad von Vechta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval illuminator (1400–1403)
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century