Master of Blutenburg

With Champion Blood Castle is Gothic carver referred to the 1490 or 1500 from linden wood a sculpture cycle consisting of Christ, Mary and the Twelve Apostles for Blutenburger Chapel has created. In order to detail the master's emergency name and to distinguish him from other represented artists not known by name in Blutenburg, he is usually called the master of the Blutenburg apostles .

The master's style is characterized by the delicacy of the figures and mildness in their faces. Also because of the typical drapery, further works are ascribed to the master, who is still unknown today in southern Germany, which suggest a creative period between 1480 and 1510.

In earlier times it was assumed that the master of Blutenburg was Erasmus Grasser . However, this thesis has been deviated from, but it is assumed that the creator of the figures comes from Grasser's school.

Work (selection)

Two apostles from the Blutenburg castle chapel

Blutenburg Apostle . Blutenburg, castle chapel
Saint Bartholomew . Nuremberg, Germanic National Museum
Archangel Michael . Freising, Diocesan Museum for Christian Art of the Archdiocese of Munich and Fresing pdf with illustration
Enthroned Mother of God with Child (formerly part of the late Gothic high altar), Rottenbuch, formerly Augustinian Canons' Collegiate Church of St. Maria
The two Johannes . Erding, parish church of St. Johannes
Sorrowful mother Maria from the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Bilderschatz Donaueschingen, today private collection Würth, exhibited in Schwäbisch Hall, Johanniterhalle ( picture in eZeitung of November 21, 2008)
Parish church of St. Jakob in Wildsteig , high altar figures

literature

Kornelius Otto: Erasmus Grasser and the Master of the Blutenburg Apostle Cycle , Munich: UNI-Dr., 1988
Matthias Less: Sculpture in Bavaria around 1500. Grasser's contemporaries and competitors. In: Turbulent times. The sculptor Erasmus Grasser (around 1450–1518). Edited by Renate Eikelmann and Christoph Kurzeder (exhibition catalog Bayerisches Nationalmuseum / Diözesanmuseum Freising), Hirmer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-3057-7 , pp. 103–120.

Web links

Commons : Sculptures by the Master of Blutenburg in the Blutenburg Palace Chapel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bavarian Palace Administration The Restoration of St. Peter (PDF, on one of the figures of the apostles )

Individual evidence

↑ Max Hasse : Master of Blutenburg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 50 .
^ Georg Dehio : Bavaria 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Handbook of German Art Monuments. 3rd, updated edition. Munich / Berlin 2006, pp. 206, 275, 356.
↑ Friedbert Ficker : Blutenburg and the master of the Blutenburg apostles. In: Art and the beautiful home. Volume 83, 1971, ISSN 0023-5423 , pp. 144-146.

[1] Max Hasse : Master of Blutenburg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 50 .

[2] Georg Dehio : Bavaria 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Handbook of German Art Monuments. 3rd, updated edition. Munich / Berlin 2006, pp. 206, 275, 356.

[3] Friedbert Ficker : Blutenburg and the master of the Blutenburg apostles. In: Art and the beautiful home. Volume 83, 1971, ISSN 0023-5423 , pp. 144-146.