Master of the Neudörfer Portraits

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The painter who painted a portrait of the Nuremberg citizen Johann Neudörfer the Elder and one of his wife Magdalena around 1527 is known as the master of Neudörfer portraits .

The artist, who is not known by name, painted Johann Neudörfer, master scribe and mathematician, whose textbooks on the art of writing had a decisive influence on the development of German Gothic script. He also portrayed his wife Magdalena Schellmann, married Neudörfer. Neudörfer married the widowed Magdalena around 1522. The pictures are now in the picture gallery of the State Art Collections in Kassel .

The images are each approximately 50 centimeters high and 38 centimeters wide. They are an example of the emergence of portrait painting of married couples from the wealthy middle class at the end of the Middle Ages . The art-historical analysis of the two pictures by the master of the Neudörfer portraits shows the beginning of bourgeois portrait painting, together with the consideration of the other early married couple diptychs created since the end of the 15th century. The new art form is first of all a regulated representation of people and formalized representation of clothing, which develops from the representation of donors on religious images and under strict observance of medieval dress codes. A type of uniform representation of married couples emerges, which then opens up, albeit slowly, innovations in the design.

The master of the Neudörfer portraits is also credited with a portrait of the astronomer Johann Schöner from 1528 . This is now in the municipal gallery of the State Museum Hanover.

literature

  • Peter Strieder u. a. (Ed.): Masters around Albrecht Dürer: Exhibition in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (catalog). Nuremberg 1961, p.?.
  • Kurt Holes (Ed.): Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The paintings of the 16th century . Stuttgart 1997, p.
  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars . Saur, Munich 2007, p. 998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inv. No. GK 9 and GK 10.
  2. ↑ Compare Elisabeth Varva: Ehe-Paar-Bilder. In: Gerhard Jaritz (Ed.): Ritual, Images, and Daily Life. The Medieval Perspective. Münster 2012, pp. 139–162, here p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Neudörfer Portraits
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter in Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH before 1527
DATE OF DEATH after 1527