Master of Lorcher Carrying the Cross
A medieval artist who created a terracotta group to carry the cross on the Middle Rhine around 1410 is known as the master of carrying the cross from Lorch . The work created for a parish church of St. Martin in Lorch gave this master his emergency name . It is one of the most important late medieval sculptures made of terracotta north of the Alps, a material that was not commonly found in this region at this time.
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The Lorcher Cross is now in the Bode Museum in Berlin. The group consists of more than a dozen individual figures. In the 19th century a tracery shrine was reconstructed as a housing for the fired clay figures and the tracery frieze was added according to the original model.
Style and meaning
The master of Lorcher Cross shows through his life portrayal of the figures late Gothic realism, as it can be found earlier in Dutch paintings. His work shows the development starting from the traditional idealizing stylization towards the most precise observation of nature. As in the contemporary painting of his epoch in particular, it becomes evident in the field of sculpture in the center of Europe that studies of nature seek new knowledge about the nature of the environment, even if the works remain rooted in traditional religious beliefs. The power of observation of the master of the Lorch carrying the cross is shown e.g. B. in the exact proportions of his figures and his natural reproduction of the human body in general. His works are considered to be outstanding works of clay sculptures from the Middle Rhine region. It is also an occasion for an art-historical discussion to what extent the art landscape emerging on the Middle Rhine develops its own style and to what extent suggestions from sculpture and painting from other art centers from Cologne to the Netherlands or France are adopted.
Works (selection)
- The Lorcher Calvary - crucifixion group from the parish church of St. Martin in Lorch am Rhein , National Museums in Berlin ( Bode Museum )
- Head of a Joseph von Arimathia , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
literature
- H. Wilm: Gothic clay sculpture in Germany . Augsburg 1929
- G. Schoenberger: Alabaster sculpture . In: O. Schmitt (ed.): Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Volume 1. Stuttgart 1934, Col. 294 ff.
- A. Schädler: On the work of the master of the Lorcher carrying the cross . In: Munich Year Book of Fine Arts , 3.F. May 1954, pp. 80-88
- B. Buczynski: The Lorcher Carrying the Cross . In: S. Guillot (ed.): Sculptures médiévales allemandes: conservation et restauration, Paris 1993
- M. Woelk: sculptures from the 9th to the 16th century made of stone, wood and clay in the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt , inventory catalog. Berlin 2000
- L. von Wilckens: Outline of Occidental Art History . Stuttgart 2000
- J. von Fircks: Passion spectacle or devotional picture - The Lorch Carrying the Cross . In: H. Beck, Herbert, H. Krohm (Ed.): SichtsSache. The Bode Museum Berlin in the Liebieghaus Frankfurt. European sculpture from 800 to 1800, Frankfurt a. Main / Wolfratshausen 2002, pp. 102-112
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Plastic". In: Fischer Lexikon Bildende Kunst, Volume 2. Accessed online February 2010 [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See on this Städel Museum (ed.): In the Städel Museum: Outstanding works of the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt - Netherlands and Germany. A Dialogue in the 15th Century , press release Frankfurt October 16, 2007 and the exhibition described there, “The Netherlands and Germany: A Dialogue in the 15th Century” from October 2007 to February 2008 at the Städel
- ↑ s. in addition R. Herrlinger: Body proportions in the XIV century . In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft , 14th vol., (1949), pp. 157–162
- ↑ O. Kerber: The history of art at the University of Gießen - The beginnings under Hugo von Ritgen Festschrift for the 350th anniversary. Giessen 1957
- ↑ On this development question, cf. BM Woelk (Ed.): Paintings from the 9th to the 16th century made of stone, wood and clay in the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt , inventory catalog. Stuttgart 2000
