Master of the Landsberger Nativity

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The medieval painter who worked in Swabia around 1450 or 1460 is sometimes referred to as the master of the Landsberg Nativity . The name unknown artist is in the image of the Nativity named that in today Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister can be found in Augsburg The picture shows in the foreground Mary and Joseph in the manger, in the background is a cityscape of Landsberg am Lech to see. The representation of a detailed landscape and the city view, which clearly shows the city of Landsberg, shows the development of late Gothic painting in Swabia towards more realism, a development that was already widespread in the Netherlands at that time. Already Jan van Eyck had shown in his paintings accurate representations of Dutch cities in the background.

In the picture of the master of the Landsberg birth of Christ , the city ​​fortifications of Landsberg can be clearly seen in their construction, which had been carried out in two sections from the 13th to the 15th century. A scaled-down copy of the oil painting, which was created recently, can be seen in the Landsberg City Museum.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Painting Collection, Augsburg, inventory number 1024.
  2. ^ Georg Dehio: Bavaria 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Handbook of German Art Monuments . 3rd, updated edition. Munich / Berlin 2006, p. 1372

literature

  • Christoph Roppel: The Landsberg castle complex as seen over the centuries . In: Landsberger Geschichtsblätter 91/92, 1992, pp. 14-29.
  • Dagmar Dietrich: The Landsberg city fortifications (I) . In: Landsberger Geschichtsblätter 91/92, 1992, pp. 30-52.
  • Georg Dehio: Bavaria 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Handbook of German Art Monuments . 3rd, updated edition. Munich / Berlin 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Master of the Landsberger Nativity
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century