Master of the playing cards

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The Master of the Playing Cards , even playing cards Master ( English Master of the Playing Cards ), active around 1425-1450 in the Rhineland, was an anonymous German letter printer , engraver , painter and goldsmith .

The master is named with an emergency name after his main work, a series of playing cards in copper engraving . The oldest (before 1440) engraved card game is ascribed to him. Of the 13 motifs that have been preserved, 65 sheets (three quarters of the deck of cards) are known. A total of 100 engravings are ascribed to him.

The playing card master was the most influential of the first generation of engravers in the mid-15th century. Along with Meister ES and Martin Schongauer, he is one of the most important engravers of the early copper engraving era. In the work of the master, a personal style of a copper engraver can be recognized for the first time, making him the first personality in the history of copper engraving (author's graphic).

literature

  • Max Geisberg (Ed.): The oldest engraved German card game by the master of playing cards (studies on German art history; vol. 66). Heitz, Strasbourg 1905.
  • Max Geisberg: The Beginnings of Copper Engraving . 2nd edition, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Leipzig 1924.
  • Lilli Fischel: Upper Rhine painting in the mirror of the copper engraving . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft , Volume 1 (1947/48), Issue 1, pp. 23–38, ISSN  0721-958X .
  • Hellmut Rosenfeld: Münchner Spielkarten um 1500. A contribution to the dating of the playing cards of the 15th and 16th centuries; on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Bavarian State Library and the 800th anniversary of the city of Munich (small print of the Gutenberg Society; 65). German Playing Cards Museum, Bielefeld, 1958.
  • Erwin Kohlmann and Hellmut Rosenfeld: German playing cards from five centuries ( Insel-Bücherei ; Vol. 755). Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1964.
  • Martha A. Wolff: The Master of the Playing Cards. An early engraver and his relationship to traditional media . Dissertation, Yale University 1979, UMI ( ProQuest ), Dissertation Services, 2002.

Web links

Commons : Master of Playing Cards  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Jane Turner (Ed.): The dictionary of art, Vol. 20 (Mächtig bis Medal) . Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 .
  2. ↑ Martha Wolff:  Master of the playing cards. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 720 ( digitized version ).
    German Biographical Archive , Part II Fichenummer: 872, Page 245; III 613, 327.
  3. ↑ The first known dated copperplate flagellation of Christ by the master from 1446 bears the year 1446, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
  4. ^ Rolf Agde (co-author): The large lexicon of graphics: artists, techniques, information for collectors , Westermann, Braunschweig 1984, ISBN 3-14-509079-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Master of the playing cards
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Playing card master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engraver, painter and goldsmith, active on the Upper Rhine
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1455