Master of the Jacobial tar

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Master of the Jakobialtars is the emergency name of the carver and painter who worked between 1420 and 1435 and who created the former Gothic high altar of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck . The altar came to the Marienkirche in Neustadt-Glewe in the 18th century . In 1882 he came to the Grand Ducal Museum Schwerin and in 1938 to Schwerin Castle . Today it is located as the Neustädter Altar in the Middle Ages collection of the State Museum Schwerin in Güstrow Castle .

Jakobialtar plant

The provisional names the decisive Artist altar of 1435 is next to the day in St. Anne's Monastery Luebeck located Grönauer altar from the Aegidienkirche the only other medieval high altar of Lübeck's main churches. In the church records of St. Jakobi there is no evidence of the further fate of this altar. However, he must have been canceled because on that day the Baroque high altar of St. James in until May 2, 1717 Jerome Hassberg been preaching was. It is known from Mecklenburg sources that the Gothic altar was given away to Neustadt-Glewe, where the local Marienkirche burnt down in 1728. There it was set up again in 1746. In 1841 it came into the collection of Grand Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and thus into the collection of today's State Museum.

The Marie Coronation -Altar shows on the outsides of paintings of Conrad von Soest and the Hamburg Master Francke remember. Due to the similarity to the former Gothic main altar of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, the master of the Jakobialtars was partly regarded as a student of the master of the (former) high altar of the Marienkirche in Lübeck or as the same person. The figurative works of the holiday view are reminiscent of the statue of Mary on the boy altar of the Nikolaikirche in Stralsund .

restoration

Over the years, the altar, which is 7.60 meters wide and 2.47 meters high on the holiday side, has been restored several times, with deviations from the original, especially during earlier restorations . Already in the transfer of the altar in the Grand Ducal antiquities collection by the Schwerin on Archives Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch were missing in 1840, ten of the carved half-figures and the second pair of wings with the inscription of the completion date 1435. In 1870 he was leached and reworded to him in 1882 in the Grand Ducal Museum Schwerin to present. This coloring was removed again in 1922. The exterior panels were cut off at the beginning of the 20th century in order to display them as paintings . This division was not reversed in the revision that has now taken place. From 1938 to 1946 the altar was in Schwerin Castle. During the evacuation for the Soviet military administration , the altar box was dismantled and kept in the depot. In 2005 the middle shrine was put back together and the right half of the altar was restored, followed by the left half and the two wings in 2009. The winged altar has been coherent again since then.

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Bernhard Nöhring's publishing house: Lübeck 1920, pp. 340–342. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Götz J. Pfeiffer: "The high altar in the choir used to be cut by Holtz". On the history and painting of the Coronatio retable of 1435 from St. Jakobi zu Lübeck , in: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Antiquity, 87, 2007, pp. 9–40.
  • Karl Schaefer : History of the fine arts in Lübeck. In: Fritz Endres (ed.): History of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Lübeck 1926, pp. 113-170, (145f.).

Single receipts

  1. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch , yearbooks of the association for mecklenb. Business u. Antiquity 38 (1873), p. 198 f.
  2. ↑ Dexel-Brauckmann in ZVLGA 19, p. 8 f. and p. 11 f.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Struck in ZVLGA 13, p. 112 ff. (P. 118) suspects the Lübeck painter Jakob Hoppener , who is recorded in Lübeck for 1407-1453.
  4. ^ Rudolf Struck in ZVLGA 13, p. 116.
  5. ^ Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung 1/2010 of January 9, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Master of the Jacobial tar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Picture carver and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century