Master of the Celtis Illustrations

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As a master of Celtis illustrations , Celtismeister or Celtis champion a German is signatory designated, who worked around 1500-1510. The master, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from woodcuts he designed for the Quattuor libri amorum by Conrad Celtis , for which Albrecht Dürer also provided woodcut illustrations and which were published in Nuremberg in 1502 .

The woodcuts by the master of Celtis illustrations show a very individual style, but also the influence of other humanistic artists such as Willibald Pirckheimer . Many attempts have been made to assign these works to a well-known artist. Hildegard Zimmermann compared him, for example, with the "Birgitten or Benedict Master" and the illustrator Peter Vischer . Another artist was assumed to be Hans von Kulmbach , who had also created woodcuts for the comedies of the nun Roswitha von Gandersheim . This equation was classified as incorrect by Max J. Friedländer .

literature

  • Max Geisberg: The German single-sheet woodcut in the first half of the 16th century . 19th delivery: The master of Celtis illustrations, Hans Vischer . Schmidt, Munich 1923, OCLC 984907435 .
  • Master of the Celtis Illustrations . 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. 66 .
  • Peter Luh: Dedicated to Maximilian. The unfinished work by Conrad Celtis and its woodcuts. Frankfurt / M. 2001.
  • Claudia Wiener, Jörg Robert, Günter and Ursula Hess (eds.): Amor as a topographer. 500 years of Amores des Conrad Celtis. A manifesto of German humanism. Cabinet exhibition April 7th - June 30th 2002. Schweinfurt 2002.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Geisberg: The German single-sheet woodcut in the first half of the XVI. Century. Munich 1929.
  2. ↑ Hildegard Zimmermann: The "Birgitten-Most" = Peter Vischer? In: Isak Collin (ed.): Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen . 14th year. Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala / Stockholm 1927, p. 7–16 (Swedish, runeberg.org - German-language article).
  3. ^ Peter Strieder :  Kulmbach, Hans Suess von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 277-279 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Celtis Illustrations
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Celtis master, Celtis master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century