Master of the Madonna von Neuhaus

Madonna von Neuhaus, Bohemia, around 1460 (detail)

The Gothic painter who created the panel painting with a Madonna and Child in Bohemia around 1460 is known as the master of the Neuhaus Madonna . The work shows Mary with the baby Jesus in front of a gilded background.

Naming

According to the place of origin of his picture from Jindřichův Hradec (Neuhaus) , the master who was not known by name was given his emergency name . Despite this naming, it is not clear whether the picture was commissioned for Neuhaus. Possibly it was painted commercially in series production in one of the painters' workshops in Prague , exhibited for sale and thus came to Neuhaus through purchase.

style

The master of the Madonna von Neuhaus shows the influence of stylistic elements from the illumination of the epoch. The Madonna von Neuhaus is in the tradition of the soft style . It shows a relationship to pictures by the master von Hohenfurth .

Another Madonna von Neuhaus

Do not confuse the image of the master of the Madonna of Neuhaus with a likewise as Madonna of Neuhaus or Madonna of Jindřichův Hradec said image of 1460, which is in the picture gallery of lock Jindřichův Hradec ( dt. Neuhaus) is located. It is the work of another anonymous master from Bohemia.

Individual evidence

↑ see e.g. Robert Suckale : Gothic. From Giotto to Lochner. Schuler, Herrsching 1983, ISBN 3-7796-5210-2 , p. 73 ( The new museum of painting ).
^ English as Master of the Madonna of Neuhaus with Ingo F. Walther (Hrsg.): Masterpieces of Western Art. A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen Verlag, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8228-8909-1 , p. 724.
^ Ingo F. Walther (ed.): Masterpieces of Western Art. A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen Verlag, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8228-8909-1 , p. 71.
^ Ingo F. Walther (ed.): Masterpieces of Western Art. A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen Verlag, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8228-8909-1 , p. 713.
^ Jindřichův Hradec . In: Kerstin Micklitza, André Micklitza: Discovering the Czech Republic. Out and about in Bohemia and Moravia. 2nd updated and expanded edition. Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-087-6 ( Trescher series Reisen. )

[1] see e.g. Robert Suckale : Gothic. From Giotto to Lochner. Schuler, Herrsching 1983, ISBN 3-7796-5210-2 , p. 73 ( The new museum of painting ).

[2] English as Master of the Madonna of Neuhaus with Ingo F. Walther (Hrsg.): Masterpieces of Western Art. A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen Verlag, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8228-8909-1 , p. 724.

[3] Ingo F. Walther (ed.): Masterpieces of Western Art. A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen Verlag, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8228-8909-1 , p. 71.

[4] Ingo F. Walther (ed.): Masterpieces of Western Art. A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen Verlag, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8228-8909-1 , p. 713.

[5] Jindřichův Hradec . In: Kerstin Micklitza, André Micklitza: Discovering the Czech Republic. Out and about in Bohemia and Moravia. 2nd updated and expanded edition. Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-087-6 ( Trescher series Reisen. )