Master of the Pietà Roettgen
The medieval carver on the Middle Rhine who created a figure of Mary with the body of Christ removed from the cross around 1360 is known as the master of Pietà Roettgen . This form of representation of the Mother of Sorrows is also called Pietà . The wooden sculpture, now known as Pietà Roettgen , was acquired in 1912 from the art collection of the Bonn merchant Carl Roettgen from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn and gave the artist, who is not known by name, his emergency name .
The style of the master of Pietà Roettgen is an early example of how the sculptors on the Middle Rhine received new impulses, for example from the Bohemian court art, and developed a new ideal of beauty for the Mother of God . Despite the depiction of suffering, the master created a moving picture that depicts the facial features of the mother in suffering over the child, almost supernaturally transfigured. In a time marked by plague epidemics, wars and famines, he probably created the figure as a devotional image that seeks to invite the viewer to deep contemplation in the belief in another world.
The figure of the master of Pietà Roettgen was often discussed , especially during the Expressionist period in Germany, and is still considered one of the most important and most expressive works of the Middle Ages on the Rhine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn: inventory number 24189
- ^ RH Johannsen: 50 classics. Sculptures. From antiquity to the 19th century. Gerstenberg Verlag 2005
literature
- R. Suckale (Ed.): Schöne Madonnen am Rhein (catalog for the exhibition in the Landesmuseum Bonn, 2009/2010). EASeemann 2009
- RH Johannsen: 50 classics. Sculptures. From antiquity to the 19th century . Gerstenberg Verlag 2005