Master of the Ulrich legend

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Legend of St. Ulrich (around 1450)

As a master of Ulrich Legend or Ulrich Meister one is Gothic painter called that after 1450 probably in Augsburg worked. The artist, who is not known by name, gets his emergency name after two pictures he created with depictions from the legend of St. Ulrich , patron saint of Augsburg. The works painted on wooden panels can be found there on the north wall of the transept in the St. Ulrich and Afra basilica and represent, among other things, the fish miracle of St. Ulrich . As one of the pictures probably depicts the interior of the Romanesque predecessor church of St. Ulrich and Afra, which was destroyed in 1474, they were taken before this point in time. The back of the pictures is unpainted, so they were probably intended as wall cladding.

The composition of the scenes and, for example, the clothing of the figures in the pictures of the Ulrich legend indicate the influence of Burgundian illuminators . The master of the Ulrich legend was also familiar with contemporary painting from Flanders . Until the middle of the 15th century, the influence of Bohemian painting had mainly determined the development of this art direction in Augsburg. However, after 1455, works by Dutch painters could be found in Augsburg, and Dutch painters settled in the city around this time. Even if not directly verifiable, it can be assumed that Dutch models such as Rogier van der Weyden were also important for the master of the Ulrich legend . Whether the unknown master was a Dutchman temporarily staying in Augsburg is controversial.

The assignment of a few other works to the master of the Ulrich legend is also controversial , such as the portrait of a man ( portrait of the town clerk ) in the Kunstmuseum Basel or preparatory work for another portrait in the Bavarian State Painting Collection . There is no connection, sometimes suggested, between the early works of Hans Holbein and those of the master of the Ulrich legend.

literature

  • H. Voss: The origin of the Danube style. A piece of the development history of German painting. Leipzig 1907.
  • Master of the Ulrich legend . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 333-334 .
  • Ernst Buchner : The Augsburg panel painting of the late Gothic. In: Contributions to the history of German art II, Augsburger art of the late Gothic and Renaissance. Munich 1928, pp. 1–92.
  • A. Stange: German Gothic painting. Volume 8 Swabia in the period from 1450 to 1500. Munich 1957.
  • M. Foster: The master of the Ulrich legend and painting in Augsburg in the 15th century. Munich 1979.
  • S. Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Göttingen 2000.

Web links

Commons : Master of the Ulrich legend  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Reinhardt: Holbein, Hans the Elder. In: New German Biography. 9 (1972), pp. 513-515 [online version 2010]
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Ulrich legend
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrichsmeister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century