Master of Thenn's children's portraits

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A painter who worked in Salzburg around 1516 is known as the master of Thenn's children's portraits .

The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after three portraits of children he created. The small-format panel paintings were created in Salzburg in 1516 in oil on wood and depict the children of Johann Thenn, the wealthy mint master in the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg . These are probably Wolf, Ruprecht and Barbara Thenn. The children are shown in front of a mountain landscape in the background. Landscape motifs are a novelty in painting in Salzburg, and the pictures are reminiscent of the style of the Danube School , which developed from 1500 in other parts of Austria as a link between late Gothic and Renaissance .

  • Master of Thenn's children's portraits: Ruprecht Thenn

  • Master of Thenn's children's portraits: Wolff Thenn

  • Master of Thenn's children's portraits: Barbara Thenn

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurt a. M., Städel Museum, inv. No. SG 756.
  2. ↑ Frankfurt a. M., Städel Museum, inv. No. SG 410.
  3. ↑ Frankfurt a. M., Städel Museum, inv. No. SG 1013.

literature

  • Bodo Brinkmann, Stephan Kemperdick: German paintings in the Städel 1300–1500. Inventory catalog. Zabern, Mainz 2002, pp. 519-529.
  • Bodo Brinkmann (Ed.): Dürer, Cranach, Holbein - The Discovery of Man. The German portrait around 1500 (exhibition catalog Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna). Vienna 2011, no. 16-18.
  • Stefan Roller, Jochen Sander (Ed.): Fantastic worlds. Albrecht Altdorfer and the expressive in art around 1500. Hirmer, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2266-4 , p. 268 No. 150.
personal data
SURNAME Master of Thenn's children's portraits
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter in Lower Austria
DATE OF BIRTH before 1500
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century