Master of the Dangolsheim Madonna

Master of the Dangolsheim Madonna: Mother of God . Strasbourg around 1460/65

With master of Dangolsheim Madonna (or master of the Madonna of Dangolsheim ) is a Gothic carver Denoted 1460 in Alsace walnut a figure of the MTA with the baby Jesus carved. Today the work is praised as "one of the greatest Madonna figures of the late Middle Ages".

Naming

The master of the Dangolsheim Madonna got his emergency name after his medieval work, which after being removed from the church in the modern era of the 19th century was kept for some time in the town of Dangolsheim in a private house near Strasbourg . The work exhibited today in the Bode Museum shows the artist's innovative way of working.

identification

It is generally assumed that the master of the Dangolsheim Madonna is Niklaus van Leyden , who was active in Strasbourg at the time the work was created.

Work and style

The Madonna of Dangolsheim . Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Sculpture Collection, Inv.-No. 7055

The Mother of God is characterized by the liveliness of the two figures and their composition in the dialogue between mother and child.

Web links

Master of the Dangolsheim Madonna ( Memento April 1, 2005 on the Internet Archive ), In: The Grove Dictionary of Art , Macmillan 2000, excerpt on artnet.com, on the Internet Archive on archive.org, as of April 1, 2005 May 5, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ H. Krohm: Tilman Riemenschneider on the Museum Island - works of old German sculpture in the Berlin sculpture collection . Kunstschätzeverlag, 2006, p. 36
↑ sz BJ Tripps: Nicholas Gerhaert interprets an italo byzantine topic: The Madonna of Dangolsheim . In: Yearbook of the Berlin Museums , Vol. 41, (1999), pp. 25–35
↑ State Museums in Berlin
↑ German Photo Library
↑ A. Goldschmidt: The Dangolsheimer Madonna . In: Meeting reports of the Berlin Art History Society (1916), 10
↑ cf. also Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Berlin (ed.) The Dangolsheim Mother of God after her restoration (exhibition catalog, sculpture gallery of the State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, October 14 - December 3, 1989). SMPK 1989

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Dangolsheim Madonna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Master of the Dangolsheim Mother of God
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	gothic sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1460
DATE OF DEATH	after 1460

[1] H. Krohm: Tilman Riemenschneider on the Museum Island - works of old German sculpture in the Berlin sculpture collection . Kunstschätzeverlag, 2006, p. 36

[2] sz BJ Tripps: Nicholas Gerhaert interprets an italo byzantine topic: The Madonna of Dangolsheim . In: Yearbook of the Berlin Museums , Vol. 41, (1999), pp. 25–35

[3] State Museums in Berlin

[4] German Photo Library

[5] A. Goldschmidt: The Dangolsheimer Madonna . In: Meeting reports of the Berlin Art History Society (1916), 10

[6] . also Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, Berlin (ed.) The Dangolsheim Mother of God after her restoration (exhibition catalog, sculpture gallery of the State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, October 14 - December 3, 1989). SMPK 1989