Master of the Flötzer Retable

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A painter in Magdeburg in the Middle Ages is known as the master of the Flötzer retable . The artist, who is not known by name, is named after the so-called Flötzer panels , three pictures depicting the birth and crucifixion of Christ . They probably belonged to two different altarpieces that were located in the Franciscan monastery church in Barby on the Elbe and were written between 1370 and 1400 during the reign of Count Günther IV von Barby . After a fire around 1370, he had initiated and co-financed the restoration of the church.

The Flötzer panels can be found today in the depot of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin . In the 19th century they were put together to form a new altar and were placed in the church in the village of Flötz near Berlin.

The panels are an example of how a typical Bohemian style mixed with western style influences in the Magdeburg region. As a means German art production, they show the charisma of the Prague court art in the late 14th century and the importance of Magdeburg at the time of Charles IV. Long time is listed among experts only as a work of an unknown "Bohemian master" now suspected that they probably still in a Independent Magdeburg workshop was created, which was led by the master of the Flötzer retable .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jiri Fajt (ed.): Charles IV. Emperor by God's grace, art and representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310–1437. Catalog for the exhibition at Prague Castle 2006 . Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006, p. 195

literature

  • Jiri Fajt (ed.): Charles IV. Emperor by God's grace, art and representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310–1437. Catalog for the exhibition at Prague Castle 2006 . German art publisher 2006
  • Maria Deiters: Art around 1400 in the ore monastery of Magdeburg. Studies to Reconstruct a Lost Center . German publishing house for art history 2006
  • Eva Fitz: The medieval stained glass in Halberstadt Cathedral . Akademie Verlag 2003
  • Alfred Stange: German painting in the Gothic. Volume 2. The period from 1350 to 1400 . German art publisher 1936
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Flötzer Retable
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century