Master Carrying the Worcester Cross

As a master of Worcester Cross ( English Master of the Worcester Carrying of the Cross ), a painter of unknown identity which is Gothic called the 1420 or 1430 in the Bavarian worked region. His style suggests that he was also active as an illuminator . He may have been a student of the master of the St. Lambrecht votive tablet , who had a workshop in Vienna.

Naming, style and meaning

The master of the Worcester Carrying the Cross got his emergency name from his panel painting of Christ Carrying the Cross , which was in the Worcester Collection until 1956 and is now in the Chicago Art Institute.

The master of the Worcester Carrying the Cross can be seen as a pioneer of artistic renewal, especially since his style is cited by many other subsequent paintings by other masters.

Works (selection)

Worcester Carrying the Cross . (Worcester Carrying of the Cross) Chicago, Art Institute , Worcester Collection
Mocking Christ . (Drawing), London, British Museum
Lamentation of Christ . (Drawing of a Golgotha group as a preliminary study with Maria, Johannes and three soldiers). Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Kupferstichkabinett

literature

K. Oettinger: At the heyday of Munich Gothic painting. In: Journal of the German Association for Art History. 7, 1940, pp. 219-22, fig. 1; 8, 1941, pp. 20-22, 26.
Master Carrying the Worcester Cross . 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. 359-360 .
Robert Suckale : Master Carrying the Worcester Cross. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 721 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Masters of the Worcester Cross-Carrying: Worcester Cross-Carrying at the Art Institute of Chicago
Master of the Worcester Carrying the Cross: Lamentation of Christ at zeno.org

Individual evidence

↑ Master Carrying the Worcester Cross . 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. 359 .
^ Charles H. and Mary FS Worcester Collection. 1947.79.
^ FA Sweet: The Charles H. and Mary FS Worcester Collection. In: The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly. Volume 50, No. 3 (Sep. 15, 1956), pp. 44-46 (English, referred to as Master of the Worcester Panel )
↑ Robert Suckale : Master of the Worcester Carrying the Cross. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 721 f. ( Digitized version ).
↑ The master of Worcester Cross is now in English as Master of the Worcester Carrying of the Cross called.

personal data
SURNAME	Master Carrying the Worcester Cross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Master of the Worcester Carrying of the Cross
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: before 1420
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: after 1430

[1] Master Carrying the Worcester Cross . 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. 359 .

[2] Charles H. and Mary FS Worcester Collection. 1947.79.

[3] FA Sweet: The Charles H. and Mary FS Worcester Collection. In: The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly. Volume 50, No. 3 (Sep. 15, 1956), pp. 44-46 (English, referred to as Master of the Worcester Panel )

[4] Robert Suckale : Master of the Worcester Carrying the Cross. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 721 f. ( Digitized version ).

[5] The master of Worcester Cross is now in English as Master of the Worcester Carrying of the Cross called.