Berthold master

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Outpouring of the Holy Spirit ( Pentecost miracle ). F. 64 v of the Berthold sacramentary

As a Berthold master or master of the Berthold sacramentary ( English Master of the Berthold Missal ), a book illuminator of the 13th century is referred to in art history . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from the magnificent full-page illustrations that he created around 1215 for a manuscript for Weingarten Monastery . His pictures for this manuscript, named after its client Berthold, Abbot von Weingarten 1200 to 1232, as the Berthold Sacramentary , are considered to be one of the most important examples of medieval illumination. The master himself is regarded as a significant, independent and influential artist of late Romanesque .

The Berthold-Meister combined in a unique way the style of Carolingian book illumination , which was still prevalent in the book illumination of his time, with elements of book illumination from Northern Europe, which were made over Weingarten by copies of works from the Maas-Mosel through the patronage of the noble family of the Welfen -Room as well as were known from England in the monastery; his pictures assimilate the golden splendor of Byzantine painting and replace their formulaic representation with a dynamic mobility in the figure representation. Nevertheless, the traditional iconography of his era can be seen in the master's pictures, as used by other painters of his time.

In addition to the sacramentary, the Berthold Master is assigned a few illustrations for other manuscripts, such as B. the painting of a cantatorium.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today in the Pierpont Morgan Library , New York Manuscript Ms M.710.
  2. ^ Hanns Swarzenski: The Berthold Missal and the Scriptorium of Weingarten Abbey . New York 1943, p. 90; Felix Heinzer: Monastery reform and medieval book culture in the German southwest . Leiden 2008, p. 374.
  3. ^ Konrad Hoffmann (Ed.): The Year 1200. A Centennial Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York 1970, pp. 279-280.
  4. ↑ Today Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Ms. 4001.

literature

  • Hanns Swarzenski : The Berthold Missal and the Scriptorium of Weingarten Abbey . New York 1943.
  • Wolfgang Irtenkauf : Berthold-Meister - The double sheet from the Gospels HB II 46. Swabian facsimiles. From the holdings of the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart (comment) . Goeppingen 1986.
  • Hans Ulrich Rudolf, Felix Heinzer, Christine Sauer, Vera Trost: A book of gold and silver. The Berthold sacramentary from Weingarten (1215-1217). Insights into the most beautiful handwriting from Weingarten Monastery . Ravensburg 1996.
  • Felix Heinzer, Hans Ulrich Rudolf (ed.): The Berthold sacramentary. Complete facsimile edition in original format of Ms M. 710 from the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York - Commentary Volume . Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1999.
  • William Voelkle, Christine Sauer, Frauke Steenbock: The Berthold Sacramentary . (= Highlights of book art 22). Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-201-01980-4 .

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SURNAME Berthold master
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Berthold Sacramentary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 13th Century