Master of the Joseph Succession

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Master of the Joseph Succession: Joseph's meeting with Asenath, the daughter of Potipheras, the priest of On. , around 1500, Berlin State Museums

The Master of the Joseph Succession , also Master of the Joseph Legend or Master of the Afflighem Abbey, was a painter of the southern Dutch school, no longer known by name , who worked between 1490 and 1500, probably mainly in Brussels .

life and work

Nothing is known about the origin and training of the master of the Joseph succession. Stylistically, he succeeds Rogier van der Weyden . It received its emergency name in 1926 from Max J. Friedländer , who named it after a series of six preserved round pictures with scenes from the life of Joseph , which are now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (Inv.-No .: 539 A – D) , in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (Inv.-No .: 13180) and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv.-No .: 53.168) . The scope and purpose of this series of pictures is unknown, but it is generally assumed that there must have been many more panels, as some important stations from Joseph's life are not shown in the known pictures.

He received his second emergency name from a series of several panels with scenes from childhood and the Passion of Christ from the Benedictine abbey in Afflighem, which are now in the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels . In the history of art, however, the emergency name given by Friedländer for the unknown painter subsequently prevailed.

In addition to these two work complexes, a number of other works are assigned to him for stylistic reasons, but their attribution is not uncontroversial. One of these ascribed works - albeit perhaps with a workshop participation - is above all a triptych depicting the Last Judgment from the town hall in Zierikzee , which is now also in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels (Inv.-No .: central panel: 4168 ; Wings: 2405 and 2406) . As another possible work of the painter was in 1903 by Johnny Roosval of the wings on 1490 dated altar in the cathedral of Strängnäs with scenes from the childhood and Passion of Christ proposed. The allocation of the well-known portrait of Philip the Beautiful (Inv.-No .: 3873) , which is kept in the Vienna Art History Museum and which is also allocated to the master of the Magdalene legend and in the museum itself to Juan de Flandes , is highly controversial .

Various suggestions have been made about the identity of the painter. Possibly, following a suggestion by Friedländer, one can identify him as Jacques van Lathem , the court painter of Philip the Fair .

Works

  • Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Joseph is sold to the Ishmaelites by his brothers. (Inv.-No .: 539 A) - Joseph is appointed administrator by Potiphar. (Inv.-No .: 539 B) - Joseph is pushed into the pit by the brothers. (Inv.-No .: 539 C) - Joseph's encounter with Asenath, the daughter of Potipheras, the priest of On. (Inv.-No .: 539 D)
  • Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts
Panels with scenes from childhood and the Passion of Christ from the file Abbey of Afflighem around 1493: The Temple Passage Mariae. (Inv.-No .: 347) - The Annunciation. (Inv.-No .: 349) - The birth of Christ. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 350) - The Adoration of the Magi. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 351) - The circumcision of Christ. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 352) - The twelve year old Christ in the temple. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 348) - Christ carrying the cross. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 344) - The crucifixion of Christ. (Inv.-No .: 345) - The Entombment of Christ. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 353) - Mary, John the Evangelist, Joseph von Arimathea and the three Marys at the tomb of Christ. 1493 (Inv.-No .: 354)
Triptych depicting the Last Judgment after 1496: The Last Judgment. (attributed; probably with workshop participation; Inv.-No .: 4168) - Philip the beautiful. Left wing of a triptych depicting the Last Judgment. (attributed to; Inv.-No .: 2405) - Johanna die Wahnsinnige. Right wing of a triptych depicting the Last Judgment. (attributed to; Inv.-No .: 2406)
  • Hanover, Lower Saxony State Museum
Head of a young man. around 1500 (fragment - attributed; Inv.-No .: KM 215)
  • Kreuzlingen, Heinz Kisters collection
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit. (attributed)
  • Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Joseph and Potiphar's wife. (Inv.-No .: 13180)
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Joseph interprets the dreams in prison. (Inv.-No .: 53.168)

literature

Web links

Commons : Master of the Joseph Sequence  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max J. Friedländer: Early Netherlandish painting. Volume 6, Leiden 1969
  2. ↑ Max J. Friedländer: The old Dutch painting. Volume 4, Berlin 1926, pp. 115 ff., 143 f.
  3. ↑ Peter Eikemeier in: Alte Pinakothek Munich, explanations of the paintings on display. Corrected edition expanded with an appendix. Munich 1986, p. 322 f.
  4. ^ Johnny Roosval: Carved altars in Swedish churches and museums from the workshop of the Brussels sculptor Jan Bormann. Strasbourg 1903.
  5. ↑ a b Master of the Joseph Succession . 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. 167 .
  6. ^ The paintings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Directory of paintings. Vienna 1991, p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Joseph Succession
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Joseph Legend; Master of Afflighem Abbey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter of the Southern Dutch School
DATE OF BIRTH before 1490
DATE OF DEATH after 1500