Master of the Colmar Crucifixion
With master of Colmar Crucifixion one in the Middle Ages is Alsace , possibly in Strasbourg active painter of the Gothic named. The artist, who is not known by name, created an altarpiece around 1410 depicting the crucifixion of Christ .
The master is a representative of the "soft style" , which developed around 1400 through the combination of various style elements from western medieval Europe, primarily on the Upper Rhine. The representation turns away from the previously usual static and rigid figure language and shows flowing folds in clothing and graceful gestures in figures and composition as a whole. The master's style is reminiscent of book illumination in France in the 14th century.
In the course of the French Revolution, the picture was removed from the collegiate church of St. Martin in Colmar and kept with many other pictures brought to Colmar from churches and monasteries in the region. Later, like the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Bergheim Altarpiece, it became the founding inventory of the Unterlinden Museum (fr. Musée d'Unterlinden) in Colmar.
In a special exhibition in 2008, the master of the Colmar Crucifixion was identified with the glass painter, painter and book illustrator Hermann Schadeberg, who worked in Strasbourg from 1399 to 1438 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musée d'Unterlinden, Press Mappe, Colmar o. J. ( PDF; 853 kB ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . ).
- ^ Philippe Lorentz: Un grand artiste à Strasbourg au tournant du XVe siècle: le Maître de la Crucifixion au dominicain, Hermann Schadeberg. In: Philippe Lorentz (Ed.): Strasbourg 1400. Un foyer d'art dans l'Europe gothique. Éditions des Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2008, ISBN 978-2-351-25059-4 , pp. 36-53 (in French).
