Master of the Allendorfer Altar

With master of Allendorf altar an unnamed known Gothic is carver and painter referred to the 1420/30 a triptych for the village church Allendorf (Thüringen) has created. The altar is one of the earliest Central German carved altars and an example of a style from a Thuringian or Erfurt school .

Left altar wing from Heilsberg

The Allendorfer Altar is a typical box-shaped shrine like other contemporary altars of the early Gothic, still without carved decoration on the outside. Inside it shows the carved figures of Mary with the baby Jesus surrounded by twelve saints. The figures are crowned with gilded canopies . The outside of the double doors are painted with scenes from the Passion , which can be seen when closed.

The Allendorfer Altar has been on loan to the Eisenach City Museum since 1930 and has been to the Museum auf der Heidecksburg since 2008 .

literature

Lutz Unbehaun: The Allendorfer Altar. In: Rudolstädter Heimathefte. Contributions from the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district and its surroundings. Vol. 55, Issue 3/4, 2009, 0485-5884 , pp. 72-78.

Individual evidence

^ Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district: Allendorfer carved altar comes to Heidecksburg (press release) July 9, 2008
↑ Eckart von Sydow: The development of the figural decoration of the Christian altar antependia and retabula up to the 14th century (= On the history of art of foreign countries. Vol. 97, ZDB ID 515449-2 ). Heitz & Muendel, Strasbourg 1912, p. 69.

[1] Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district: Allendorfer carved altar comes to Heidecksburg (press release) July 9, 2008

[2] Eckart von Sydow: The development of the figural decoration of the Christian altar antependia and retabula up to the 14th century (= On the history of art of foreign countries. Vol. 97, ZDB ID 515449-2 ). Heitz & Muendel, Strasbourg 1912, p. 69.