Master of the Altar of Arboga

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The artist who worked in Lübeck between 1490 and 1525 is named as the master of the Arboga Altarpiece . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after his main work, the altar in Arboga in Sweden .

Art science suspects that the carver and painter of the altar were two different people. Therefore, Master of the Altar of Arboga can refer to the painter of the Altar of Arboga or the Master of the Altar of Arboga can also mean the carver of the altar.

Carver of the Altar of Arboga

Marienaltar with the unicorn hunt

The art historian Walter Paatz praises the carvings of the altar in Arboga as extremely impressive and draws a comparison with the Maria Magdalenen altar and the Thomas altar in the St. Anne's monastery in Lübeck , created after 1520. He sees Henning von der Heyde's assistant in the carver , who is said to have shown his handwriting on the Passion reliefs on the Rytterne altar as early as 1490 . According to Paatz, the predella of the Corpus Christi altar (1498) from the Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) in Lübeck is also from his hand. Paatz also assigns him the altar by Aspeboda , a Madonna from Tyresö in the Swedish National Museum , an Anna selbdritt from Vaerøy in the Museum Tromsø , an altar from Pönal in the Museum of Reval , the Altar of Mary with the unicorn hunt in Lübeck Cathedral and the middle relief of the altar in the Marienkirche in Bad Segeberg as an independent work.

Painter of the Altar of Arboga

The style of the paintings on the wings of the Arboga altar is compared with those of the master from 1473 on the crucifixion altar of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck . The work on the altar in Opdal or the wings of the altar in Vevring in Norway could also have been done by the master.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Master of the Altar of Arboga . 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. 12 (Makes two entries one after the other for the same “lemma”, the first for the picture carver, the second for the painter).
  2. ↑ Henning von der Heyde. In: Wolfgang Paatz: Bernt Notke and his circle. Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1939, pp. 147–168, here pp. 165–166 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ↑ The Master of the Altar of Arboga. In: Harald Busch : Masters of the North. Old Low German painting. 1450-1550. Ellermann, Hamburg 1940, p. 98.