Krumlov Madonna
The Krumlov Madonna is an originally colored figure of a Mary with baby Jesus made of sand-lime stone, which an unknown Gothic master created in Bohemia around 1390 or 1400 . It was in a private home of the South Bohemian town of 1,910 Krumlov discovered (Český Krumlov) and so got its name. After this only firmly assigned work, the not known master of the Krumlov Madonna was given his emergency name . The Madonna is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and is considered to be “the epitome of late Gothic Madonna sculptures”.
style
The Krumlov Madonna belongs to the group of works known in art history as the Beautiful Madonnas . It was created in the vicinity of the Prague court, which under Emperor Charles IV became an important cultural center of culture and an artistic attraction for representatives of the international Gothic from all regions of his empire. A so-called soft style also developed around Prague , for which the delicacy and delicate depiction of the figure of Mary from Krumlov is the most important example. It shows a south-eastern variant of the style, as it was also cultivated at other European courts and cities such as B. Milan and Vienna or Paris and Cologne. Whether and how the master of the Krumlov Madonna developed his style on a hike and during his apprenticeship can no longer be clarified, but the spread of an ideal image of the Mother of God that is close to the Krumlov Madonna shows the cross-border flow of artistic ideas of the Central European Gothic.
Place of creation
Many sculptural works (and also altarpieces) preserved in Bohemia come from workshops in the center of Prague. They met the great need for church decorations, especially for places of worship of Mary. The previous thesis that all beautiful Madonnas were the work of the master of the Krumlov Madonna is no longer generally recognized today.
A tradition of carving production is said to have established itself around Krumlov itself and the Český Krumlov Castle , which supplied Marian shrines such as Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth), Zlatá Koruna (Goldenkron) and Kájov . But where the Český Krumlov master had the center of his work remains unclear. The original location of the Krumlov Madonna is also unknown.
Web links
- Mary with child, so-called Krumau Madonna. In: khm.at. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, accessed on April 9, 2020 .
- Moments, objects and stories. No. 26. Beautiful Madonna. In: khm.at. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, accessed on April 9, 2020 .
- The reopening of the Kunstkammer in 2013. In: khm.at. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, accessed on April 9, 2020 (with photos from the exhibition site of the Krumlov Madonna).
- History of sculpture in the Český Krumlov region . In: Online encyclopedia encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz about Krummau .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Beautiful Madonna of Krumau. In: Florian von Heintze (ed.): The great people's lexicon. 1000 questions and answers. Art and architecture. Bild Wissensbibliothek, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 2006, p. 86f.
- ^ Wilhelm Pinder: On the problem of the "beautiful Madonnas" around 1400. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections. Volume 44, Berlin 1923.
- ↑ in particular Karl-Heinz Clasen: The medieval sculpture in the German Order of Prussia. Berlin 1939.
- ↑ Beautiful Madonna. In: Peter W. Hartmann: Kunstlexikon. BeyArs, 1996 ( online at BeyArs.com ).
- ^ Gerhard Schmidt: Gothic images and their masters. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1992, p. 229ff (text volume).
- ↑ The original installation site could have been the royal monastery Zlatá Koruna, but the Rosenberg Church of St. Vitus and other ecclesiastical objects in and around Krumau are also mentioned.