Master of the Kassel musicians

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The master of the Kassel musicians (left to right : Meester van de Kasselse Muzikanten), also Master A, was a Dutch painter of the so-called Golden Age who probably worked in Utrecht between 1600 and 1649 and is no longer known by name .

Violin player with glass.
Lute player.

life and work

Nothing is known about the painter's origins and life. It received its emergency name from a group of two half-length pictures with musicians kept in the Kassel Picture Gallery of Old Masters - a violin player with glass (Inv.-No .: GK 177) and a lute player (Inv.-No .: GK 178) - both of them probably painted around 1625.

According to art historian Benedict Nicolson , of him in his monograph on the painter ter Hendrick Brugghen as Master A designated, he was a follower just ter Brugghen. In 1965 Leonard J. Slatkes proved that the painter, unknown by name, was closer to the painter Dirck van Baburen because of his painting style, the type of figures he represented and the choice of motifs . In his Baburen monograph, Slatkes assigned the painter for the first time another picture depicting a singing man with a music book , which is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn (Inv.-No .: 39.1065). In the museum's catalog from 1982 it is questioned whether the initials IR, clearly recognizable on the singer's sheet of music, could possibly be interpreted as the artist's signature . This thesis must be viewed as speculative until new findings are discovered. It is possible, despite the different dimensions, that all three images are part of a larger series. In 2007 Slatkes, together with Wayne Franits, published a catalog raisonné of ter Brugghen's paintings in which they consider it possible that the picture Young Man with a Pipe in the Museo Nazionale di San Martino in Napels, (Inv.-No .: 84404 ) could be another work by the master of the Kassel musicians.

literature

  • Fritz Goldkuhle, Ingeborg Krueger and Hans M. Schmidt : Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. Paintings until 1900. Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7927-0693-8 , p. 320
  • Bernhard Schnackenburg (ed.): Old Masters Picture Gallery. Complete catalog. Textband, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1891-X , p. 180

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benedict Nicolson: Hendrick Terbrugghen. Londen 1958, p. 122
  2. ^ Leonard J. Slatkes: Dirck van Baburen. Utrecht 1965, pp. 89 (131), 97, 149-150
  3. ^ A b Fritz Goldkuhle, Ingeborg Krueger and Hans M. Schmidt: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. Paintings until 1900. Cologne 1982, p. 320
  4. ^ Leonard J. Slatkes / Wayne Franits: The paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629): catalog raisonné Amsterdam 2007, p. 253 (No. R72)
  5. ↑ In: Wayne Franits: The paintings of Dirck van Baburen (ca. 1592 / 93-1624): catalog raisonné Amsterdam 2013, p. 222 (No. R112), Franits expresses himself somewhat more neutrally and describes the picture as a copy of a Utrecht Painter possibly repeating a lost picture by Matthias Stomer .
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Kassel musicians
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master A
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1600
DATE OF DEATH after 1649