Master of the painted crucifixion reliefs

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As a master of painted reliefs Crucifixion one is medieval stonemason called, the three stone reliefs for the Ratzeburg Cathedral , the Schwerin Cathedral and St. Mary's Church in Anklam are attributed. The stone center shrine of the so-called Circle Brothers Altar , which was created around 1405 and 1430, is also assigned to the master .

To the unnamed artist is nothing more known. His workshop was perhaps in Westphalia or in the Burgundian Netherlands .

Crucifixion relief of the Loste altar

The crucifixion reliefs were created as altar shrines made of sandstone and contain three-dimensional figures that are painted in multiple colors . They represent the crucifixion of Christ . Their assignment to a common master is based on the stylistic similarity of these works in representation and form as well as on the numerous common details. The winged altars surrounding the crucifixion reliefs are or were made of wood.

The stone relief in Schwerin is the middle section of the winged altar, also known as the Loste Altar after its founder, Bishop Konrad Loste . The relief from Anklam was the middle part of an altar that was destroyed around 1945 and is now located as an altar attachment in the newly built Kreuzkirche there. The relief in the Ratzeburg Cathedral is part of the high altar there. The Circle Brothers Altar is now in the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck and is known, among other things, in art history for its numerous detailed depictions of animals, which can also be seen in the other works and which are possibly intended to symbolize evil.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Circle brothers altar . In: Museumsverband Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, online object database (accessed December 4, 2018).
  2. ↑ Hans Nieuwdorp: Het 14de-eeuwse gebeeldhouwdw retable in de O.-L.-Vrouwekathedraal te Antwerpen . In: Bulletin des Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire 57, 1986, pp. 7-24.
  3. ^ Adolph Goldschmidt : Lübeck painting and sculpture until 1530 . Lübeck 1890, p. 111.
  4. ↑ Horst Ende, Jutta Brothers: The Schwerin Cathedral . 2005, pp. 42-48.
  5. ↑ Detlef Witt: Consequences of the war - the Anklamer altarpiece and what was left . In: Peter Knüvener (Ed.): The high altar retable in the Prenzlauer Marienkirche . Berlin 2013, p. 129.
  6. ^ Willy Schulz-Demmin: The painted crucifixion relief in the Ratzeburg cathedral . In: Der Wagen 1963, pp. 31–33.
  7. ↑ St. Annen Museum, Lübeck, inventory number 1926-312.
  8. ↑ Christoph Gerhardt: The animal-rich calvary. Iconographic research on the painted crucifixion reliefs in Schwerin, Anklam, Ratzeburg and Lübeck . In: Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): Waltende Spur. Festschrift for Ludwig Denecke on his 85th birthday . Kassel 1991, pp. 34-100.

literature

  • Anni Pescatore : The master of the painted crucifixion reliefs. A contribution to the history of Low German sculpture in the fifteenth century . Heitz, Strasbourg 1918 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Master of the painted crucifixion reliefs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century