Master of the Deichsler Altar
A Gothic painter who probably worked in Nuremberg in the Middle Ages around 1425 is known as the master of the Deichsler Altar .
Naming
The master of the Deichsler altar got his emergency name after a winged altar that he created around 1420 , which the patrician Berthold Deichsler had donated for the Dominican Church in Nuremberg . This altar, named after the founder, was moved to the Lorenz Church after the Dominican Church was demolished.
The master of the Deichsler altar was possibly also responsible for the altar donated by Konrad Imhoff , another Nuremberg patrician, for the St. Lorenz church in Nuremberg .
identification
It was proposed that the two winged altars , known as the Deichsler Altar and the Imhof Altar , be assigned to the painter Berthold Landauer , who was active in Nuremberg around 1400 . This thesis, which emerged at the beginning of the late 19th century, remains controversial and the works are still carried under the emergency name of the master of the Deichsler altar , the latter sometimes also under the name of a master of the Imhoff altar .
Style and influence
The master of the Deichsler altar seems to be influenced by contemporary Bohemian painting. He may have been the teacher of the so-called Master of the Cadolzburg Altar and possibly also influenced the Master of the Bamberg Altar from 1429 .
Works (selection)
- Deichsler altar , around 1420. Today Berlin, State Museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural heritage, picture gallery
- Imhof altar , before 1449, today six panels in St. Lorenz, Imhoffempore and two more Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- Marientod and Maria with martyrs (from Heilsbronn Abbey), since 1833 in the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Münnerstadt
literature
- Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art. Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 .
- Frank Matthias Kammel (ed.): The Deichsler-Altar: Nuremberg Art around 1420. Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseums , Nuremberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936688-98-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. z. E.g. Helen A. Dickinson: German Masters of Art. Stockes, New York NY 1914, p. 215 (numerous reprints).
- ^ Eva Ulrich, Hartmut Krohm: The Magdalen Church in Münnerstadt (= Langewiesche library ). 5th edition. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 2004, ISBN 3-7845-0953-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master of the Deichsler Altar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century |