Master of the Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook

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The draftsman is named as the master of the Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook , who around 1610 created a total of 25 drawings based on motifs from the Electoral Palatinate region , in particular drawings of the cityscape of Heidelberg and the not yet destroyed Heidelberg Castle .

Naming

The artist, who is not known by name, received his emergency name from the title of the book in which his drawings were first published again in modern times as the Kurpfälzisches Sketchbook in 1926. They had been discovered and selected from a multitude of other originals in an anthology of the Royal Cabinet of Prints and Drawings in Stuttgart. The drawings are made with a pen in reddish-brown color on white handmade paper.

Style and school

The master of the Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook is believed to be a successor to Jan Brueghel the Elder , especially since one of the pictures in the series by Heidelberg is a copy based on his original. The other pictures are also probably copies based on models from before 1590. The master is believed to be in the vicinity of the Dutch artists working in Frankenthal in the Palatinate, who lived there in exile near the Palatinate court for religious reasons.

Works (selection)

In addition to the sketchbook, which is preserved today by the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , a few other drawings are ascribed to the master of the Electoral Palatinate sketchbook , e. B. a drawing of the slaughterhouse and mills in Frankenthal , today in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt.

literature

  • H. Hubach (Hrsg.): Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook: Views of Heidelberg and the Electoral Palatinate around 1600 , catalog of the exhibition in Heidelberg 1996. Umschau Buchverlag, Heidelberg 1996. (Parts of it available online at Heidelberg University Library: H. Hubach: Observations on the Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L. Schmieder: Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook . Heidelberg, Hörning, 1926
  2. ↑ cf. in addition z. BK Mugdan: The 'Frankenthaler School of Painting . Ceremonial lecture at the reopening of the Erkenbert Museum on December 14, 1968. In: Stadt Frankenthal (Hrsg.): Frankenthal, once u. now 1969, issue 2. Frankenthal 1969, pp. 2-6.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Electoral Palatinate Sketchbook
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century