Master of the Astaler Window
As a master of Astalerfensters or master of Astaler window is in art history a glass painter of the Middle Ages called. The artist, who is not known by name, was active around 1400 and received his emergency name from the windows he created in 1395 on behalf of Mayor Astaler for the first Frauenkirche in Munich . Some of the parts still preserved are now used in the windows of the choir chapels of the subsequent building. The stained glass of the Passion window in the Gertrude Chapel of Augsburg Cathedral and the Hornbeck window in the Freising Benedictine Church are also assigned to the master and his workshop due to stylistic similarities .
literature
- Paul Frankl : The master of the Astaler window from 1392 in the Munich Frauenkirche (= Monuments of German Art, Sect. 3: Painting. Dept. 2) German Association for Art History, Berlin 1936.
- Master of the Astaler Window . 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. 25 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Denis André Chevalley: The cathedral at Augsburg. Munich 1995, p. 189; Michael Andreas Schmid, Johannes Schreiter: The glass paintings in the Augsburger Mariendom. Fink, Lindenberg 2010.
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| SURNAME | Master of the Astaler Window |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Master of the Astaler Window |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Stained glass of the Middle Ages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century |