Master of the Darsow Madonna

Darsow-Madonna, photo from 2009

Master of the Darsow Madonna is the emergency name of a sculptor who was active in Westphalia and Lübeck in the first half of the 15th century .

The master got his emergency name after a Madonna of the soft style , which was set up in 1420 as a donation by members of the Lübeck council family Darsow, the councilor Johann Darsow together with his nephews Bernhard, Gerhard and Hermann , in the Lübeck Marienkirche . His work based on this Madonna was highly controversial among art historians of the 20th century and repeatedly refers to possible overlaps up to and including presumptions of identity with the Lübeck sculptor Johannes Junge , sometimes in the early days up to the fundamental works of the art historian Walter Paatz also the master of the Lübeck Burgkirchen Cycles .

Today this Madonna is no longer assigned to a Lübeck workshop, but to a workshop in Lower Saxony. The figure cycle of the mountain drivers and the rood screen figures in Lübeck's Marienkirche probably also originated from this workshop .

The sculpture, carved from Baumberger sandstone , was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . Because of the heat, it shattered into thousands of individual parts and was painstakingly put back together by restorers.

literature

Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: Stone sculpture in Lübeck around 1400. Foundation and origin. Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01172-6 , p. 108 ff. (Also: Kiel, Universität, Dissertation, 1994).
Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation, Göttingen 2001. with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.

Web links

Commons : Darsow family - collection of images, videos and audio files

Master of the Darsow Madonna on the Schleswig-Holstein museum server

supporting documents

↑ Hildegard Vogeler : Madonnas in Lübeck. An iconographic directory of the medieval representations of the Virgin Mary in the churches and former monasteries of the old town and the St. Anne's Museum. Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1993, p. 88, no. 46.
↑ † 1434; Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line from the beginnings of the city to the present. Volume 1: The Council Line No. 1–1041 (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Vol. 7, 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 499.

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Darsow Madonna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century

[1] Hildegard Vogeler : Madonnas in Lübeck. An iconographic directory of the medieval representations of the Virgin Mary in the churches and former monasteries of the old town and the St. Anne's Museum. Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 1993, p. 88, no. 46.

[2] † 1434; Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line from the beginnings of the city to the present. Volume 1: The Council Line No. 1–1041 (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Vol. 7, 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, No. 499.