Master of the Augustinian Altar (Nuremberg)

Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, from the St. Vitus Altar of the Nuremberg Augustinian Hermit Church, 1487

As a Master of the Saint Augustine Altarpiece one is late Gothic painter from Nuremberg called. He received his emergency name after the pictures he and his workshop painted around 1487 for a St. Vitus altar for the Nuremberg Augustinian Hermit Church . According to current considerations, the painter is identified with the Speyer native Hans Traut , who acquired Nuremberg citizenship in 1477 and died in 1487.

Name distinction

The name Master of the Augustinian Altar , first given to the master in art history , is ambiguous, which is why other names such as “Master of the St. Vitus Altar” are sometimes used today.

History of the Augustinian Altar

First a side altar, the master's St. Vitus Altar was used as the main altar after 1590. After the church was demolished in 1816, the pictures finally came into the possession of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. The carved part of the altar is lost.

Works (selection)

Augustinian altar (Veits- (Stephan) -Altar, high altar of the former Augustinian Hermit Church in Nuremberg)
- St. Vitus heals the son of Emperor Diocletian. Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Inv.Nr. Gm 146
- Torture of St. Sebastian. Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Inv.Nr. Gm 144
- St. Vitus rejects idolatry. Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Inv.Nr. 1280 (signature RF and the year 1487 on the lowest ledge of the idol column)

The Nuremberg Augustinian altar shows the collaboration of various painters; the picture signed with RF and other panels are currently attributed to Rueland Frueauf the Elder , who was then an independent workshop manager in Passau .

Individual evidence

↑ cf. z. B. Herbert Paulus : Exorcism. In: Otto Schmitt (Ed.): Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Volume 6: Donkey Back - Color, Colorants. Druckermüller, Munich 1971, Sp. 699 ( digitized version ).
↑ cf. Daniel Hess: The painted winged altar as the main task of painting before Dürer. In: The early Dürer . Edited by Daniel Hess, Thomas Eser. Exhibition catalog. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Nürnberg 2012, pp. 297–304., Here pp. 297–298. See also the GNM online object catalog .
↑ so z. B. The Yorck Project: 10,000 masterpieces of painting. DVD-ROM, 2002.
↑ cf. Friedrich Lahusen: The high altar of the former Augustinian Church of St. Veit in Nuremberg. Dissertation University of Freiburg 1957.
↑ Björn Blauensteiner: Rueland Frueauf d. Ä. (around 1440 / 50–1507 Passau). His life, his work and his artistic origin , in: Stella Rollig, Björn Blauensteiner (ed.): Rueland Frueauf d. Ä. and his circle. Exhibition cat. Belvedere, Vienna. Vienna, Munich 2017., 19–50.

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Image of St. Vitus from the wing of the high altar of the former Augustinian Hermit Church in Nuremberg

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Augustinian Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	late Gothic Nuremberg painter
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century or 16th century

[1] . z. B. Herbert Paulus : Exorcism. In: Otto Schmitt (Ed.): Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Volume 6: Donkey Back - Color, Colorants. Druckermüller, Munich 1971, Sp. 699 ( digitized version ).

[2] . Daniel Hess: The painted winged altar as the main task of painting before Dürer. In: The early Dürer . Edited by Daniel Hess, Thomas Eser. Exhibition catalog. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Nürnberg 2012, pp. 297–304., Here pp. 297–298. See also the GNM online object catalog .

[3] so z. B. The Yorck Project: 10,000 masterpieces of painting. DVD-ROM, 2002.

[4] . Friedrich Lahusen: The high altar of the former Augustinian Church of St. Veit in Nuremberg. Dissertation University of Freiburg 1957.

[5] Björn Blauensteiner: Rueland Frueauf d. Ä. (around 1440 / 50–1507 Passau). His life, his work and his artistic origin , in: Stella Rollig, Björn Blauensteiner (ed.): Rueland Frueauf d. Ä. and his circle. Exhibition cat. Belvedere, Vienna. Vienna, Munich 2017., 19–50.