Master of the female half-length figures

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Three girls making music, around 1530 Rohrau Castle, Count Harrach's family collection
The Lute Player, 1520–1530, Galleria Sabauda
Portrait of a young woman, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Mary Magdalene Reading , 1500–1550, Louvre
Landscape with the rest on the flight into Egypt, Kunsthistorisches Museum

With Master of the Female Half ( english Master of the Female Half-Lengths ) is a likely 1525-1550 in the Netherlands named active Renaissance painter. The unknown master probably worked in the southern Netherlands, perhaps also in Antwerp .

Naming

The emergency name of the master of female half-figures is derived from the numerous unsigned paintings with female half-figures that are attributed to him . These show - mostly as individual portraits - the upper body of elegantly dressed female figures with "pleasant" faces, often reading or making music. One of the most famous pictures shows three women who seem to be playing music at the "house concert".

style

According to experts, the large number of portraits and the adherence to one concept give the pictures almost “industrial schematism”. The repeatedly repeated composition of the female figures distinguishes the master from the style of Adriaen Isenbrant or Ambrosius Benson . However, the religious images attributed to the master of the female half-length figure are close to the working method and style of these two contemporaries. One can conclude from this that the master on the one hand - like Benson - worked perhaps more traditionally for ecclesiastical clients, but even more so than Benson according to his own, almost rigid “recipe for success” for secular clients. Maybe a larger workshop was working on the pictures.

interpretation

The secular work of the master of the female half-length figures shows the change of motifs in the Renaissance, which - in contrast to the Middle Ages - now highlights typical events and scenes from everyday human life from the religious environment and excerpts to strengthen the main Christian motif. The profane, that is, purely secular, portrait becomes an image in its own right. The master of the female half-length figure is almost a “genre painter” in his own way, using the growing interest in the world of this world and creating a similar series of pictures for the private market.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of a Young Woman . Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Gemäldegalerie Inv. No. 998
  • Three girls making music . St. Petersburg, Hermitage
  • Three women making music . Rohrau, picture gallery of the Counts of Harrach , WF 169
  • Lady at the clavichord . Poznań , Muzeum Narodowe No. 115
  • Descent from the Cross with Donors , 1501–1533. Münster, LWL Museum for Art and Culture ( online )
  • Neptune and Thetis (Neptune hugs a nymph). Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage (loan)
  • Venus and Cupid . Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian cultural heritage
  • St. Mary Magdalene . Private collection, exhibited in: Treasury of Germany - art in noble private ownership . Munich, House of Art, November 2004 to February 2005
  • St. Mary Magdalene, reading . Paris, Louvre , Dpt. des Peintures, INV 2156
  • Landscape with Maria Magdalena . Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
  • Landscape with the rest on the flight into Egypt . Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie Inv.-No. GG 950
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony , Dublin, National Gallery NGL 552

Works are also exhibited in the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

Some depictions of the Virgin Mary, which are now in Spanish museums, are ascribed to the master.

Some of the depictions of Mary ascribed to the master were lost after 1935 and are being sought by the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property .

literature

Web links

Commons : Master  Of The Female Half-Figures - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master of the female half-length figures: Three girls making music. zeno.org.
  2. ↑ J. Fastenau: The master of female half-figures . In: Yearbook of the Provincial Museum in Hanover covering the period April 1, 1908 - 1909 . Wilhelm Riemschneider, Hanover 1909, p. 48–56 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b Master of the female half-length figures . 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. 351 .
  4. ↑ Harald Kümmerling: About our cover picture: Three women making music from the “master of the female half-figures”. In: Guitar & Laute 1, 1979, 4, p. 2 (= picture or image, 2)
  5. ↑ Genre painter. In: The Fischer-Lexikon visual arts. Fischer 1960.
  6. ^ JH Perera: Del Maestro de las Medias Figuras. In: Goya. Revista de Arte. 49, 1962, pp.?.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the female half-length figures
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Female Half-Lengths
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Renaissance painter, active in the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH before 1530
DATE OF DEATH after 1530