Master of the Stalburg portraits

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Claus Stalburg the Rich and his wife Margarethe vom Rhein

The medieval painter who painted a portrait of Claus Stalburg and another of his wife Margarethe von Rhein in 1505 is known as the master of Stalburg portraits . The artist is not known by name and got his emergency name from these pictures painted in mixed media on fir wood .

History of the Stalburg portraits

The more than 180 centimeters high Stalburg portraits show the Frankfurt patrician and councilor Claus Stalburg and his wife Margarethe almost life-size. They were the two side wings of an altar donated by the couple for the Stalburg Chapel in Frankfurt . The portraits can be found today in the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt . The central image, depicting a crucifixion of Christ, was lost in a fire in 1813.

Interpretation of the Stalburg portraits

The Stalburg portraits show a particular class awareness of the Frankfurt patrician family, because in the Middle Ages the donors of an altar were usually portrayed as marginal figures in an adoring posture. The splendid full-length self-portrayal of the client by the master of the Stalburg portraits not only breaks with this tradition, its format is also a portrait that until then was only appropriate for the nobility.

Style and identification of the master

The master of the Stalburg portraits is close to the painting style of the painter Matthias Grünewald , who is said to have been born near Aschaffenburg.

The master of the Stalburg portraits may come from the Frankfurt family of painters, the Caldenbach.

In art history the thesis was put forward that the works assigned to the master of the Stalburg portraits should be recognized as Grünewald's early works. Despite or because of Grünewald's not fully known biography, this assumption remains controversial.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Claus Stalburg and Portrait of Margaret of the Rhine
  • Mourning Mary and Christ as Man of Sorrows

In addition to the portraits of the work, also known as the Stalburg Altar, the master of the Stalburg portraits is assigned two other pictures in the Städel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master of the Stalburg portraits: portraits of Claus Stalburg and Margaret of the Rhine. Around 1504. Städel inventory numbers 845 and 846
  2. ↑ Wolf Lücking: Grünewald: the Stalburg altar . Berlin 1986
  3. ^ Wolf Lücking: Mathis. Research on Grünewald . Berlin 1983

Web links

  • Städel (online collection: MASTERS OF STALBURG PICTURES: Portraits of Claus Stalburg and Margarethe vom Rhein [1] )

literature

  • Michaela Schedl: A group of six panel paintings, created in Frankfurt am Main around 1500, and the Caldenbach family of painters, known as Hess . In: Städel-Jahrbuch, 20/2009, pp. 131–164
  • Bodo Brinkmann, Stephan Kemperdick: German paintings in the Städel 1500–1550: Catalog of the paintings in the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Volume 5 . Frankfurt 2005
  • Wolf Lücking: Grünewald: the Stalburg altar . Frölich and Kaufmann, Berlin 1986
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Stalburg portraits
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century