Master of the Coronation of Mary in Heilsbronn

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Master of the Coronation of Mary in Heilsbronn: Saint Ursula, around 1525, Germanic National Museum

As a master of Heilsbronner Coronation one is Nuremberg carver from the vicinity of Veit Stoss called. The artist, who is not known by name, was active at the beginning of the 16th century and gets his emergency name from the figures he created in the bursting of the St. Mary 's altar in the south side choir of the church of the former Cistercian abbey Heilsbronn monastery in Franconia . Other figures in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg also come from the master : a saint Ursula and a saint Catherine, a Maria kneeling on clouds from a coronation of Mary as well as an adoration of the three wise men, which come from an altar in the Heilsbronn monastery.

literature

  • Frank Matthias Kammel : The master of the Heilsbronn Coronation: Nuremberg carving in the vicinity of Veit Stoss . In: Adam Organisty (ed.): Wokól Wita Stwosza - Materialy z miedzynarodowej konferencji naukowej w Muzeum Narodowym w krakowie maja 2005 . Krakau 2006, pp. 242-251 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory No. Pl.O.41 ( object catalog ) and Pl.O.42 ( object catalog ); Walter Josephi : Catalogs of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The works of plastic art . Nuremberg 1910, cat.no.318 and 319.
  2. ↑ Inventory No. Pl.O.46 ( object catalog ).
  3. ↑ Inventory No. Pl.O.2744 ( object catalog ).
  4. ↑ Paul Geißendörfer (Ed.): Heilsbronn - a Cistercian monastery in Franconia . Heilsbronn 2000, p. 396.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Coronation of Mary in Heilsbronn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century