Master of the Weingartner song manuscript

As a master of Weingartner Liederhandschrift is unnamed medieval illuminators referred to the 1300 or 1310 Weingartner Liederhandschrift has painted.

The first part of the manuscript contains 25 miniatures with full or half-page portraits of poets; pictures were also provided for the other parts, but were not executed. The importance of the song manuscript lies mainly in the lyrics. Your book illumination itself is still at the beginning of splendid, colorful illustrations. The pictures of the poets are painted in strong basic colors and form a stylistically closed unit. However, the color palette is still limited, the facial expressions of the figures are still formulaic and decorative details are not yet very naturalistic. The text is in the foreground and the images are still intended as supporting illustration and not yet as part of a magnificent “total work of art”. In comparison, the masters of the Codex Manesse , a group of other illuminators, then almost simultaneously between 1310 and 1330 created portraits of minstrels for a similar song text collection, which are among the masterpieces of Gothic book illumination .

literature

• Gebhard Spahr: Weingartner song manuscript . Their story and their miniatures. Konrad-Verlag, Weißenhorn 1968.
• The Weingartner song manuscript. Codex HB XIII 1 of the Württemberg State Library, Stuttgart . Complete facsimile and text volume. Verlag Müller and Schindler, Stuttgart 1969.
• Ingo F. Walther (Ed.): Gothic book painting, minnesinger. All 25 miniatures of the Weingartner Liederhandschrift in original size . Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1978.
• Rudolf E. Keller: The German language and its historical development . Publisher H. Buske, Hamburg 1995.

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  Weingartner song manuscript, poet portrait Dietmar von Aste

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  Weingartner Liederhandschrift, poet portrait Hartmann von Aue