Master of the Lübeck triumphal crucifixes

Christ side of the cross altar in Bad Doberan Minster

Master of the Lübeck Triumphal Crucifixes is the art-historical emergency name of an artist who is not known by name, to whom several triumphal crucifixes in the Baltic Sea region are assigned as a work from his Lübeck workshop for the late Gothic period .

At the end of the 1920s, the art historian Walter Paatz , based on his primary concern with the production of objects of fine art in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck as the medieval metropolis of the Baltic Sea region, combined some triumphal crosses into a group and assigned them to the artist. He was of the opinion that these triumphal crosses were among the best achievements of Lübbe art of this time. Paatz expected following to this group of works crucifixes from

of the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck , dated 1489,
the Aegidienkirche in Lübeck , dated by him to 1495/1500,
the Doberaner Munster ,
of the church in Ekeby, Sweden, today in the exhibition of medieval church art of the Historical Museum in Stockholm ,
of the church in Ed , Sweden.

Walter Paatz viewed the Man of Sorrows in the Vadstena monastery church (approx. 1454) as an early work by this artist. These summaries have been received critically in art history and have been rejected in Lübeck's inner city churches because of the differences between the two works.

The master is now considered a fiction . Rather, one assumes a group of carvers who from the third third of the 15th century often worked with Hermen Rode .

literature

Carl Georg Heise : Lübeck plastic. Bonn 1926.
Walter Paatz: In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology . Volume 25, 1929, p. 493 (with further references).

Individual evidence

↑ See last Uwe Albrecht , Ulrike Nürnberger, Jan Friedrich Richter , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume II: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, The works in the city area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 3-933598-76-1 , p. 366 (on the triumphal cross in St. Katharinen)

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Lübeck triumphal crucifixes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	16th Century

[1] See last Uwe Albrecht , Ulrike Nürnberger, Jan Friedrich Richter , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume II: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, The works in the city area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 3-933598-76-1 , p. 366 (on the triumphal cross in St. Katharinen)