Master of the Landau Altar

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The master of the Landau Altar is a Gothic painter who worked in Nuremberg from around 1450 until around 1484 . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after an altar he painted for the local Katharinenkirche . This was donated by the Landauer family from Nuremberg .

The wings of the altar painted by the master show the engagement of St. Catherine and the crucifixion of Christ , on the inside they show the birth and resurrection of Christ . The picture of the resurrection shows the donor portrait of Elisabeth Landauer in the habit of a nun , she was a nun in the Katharinenkloster Nuremberg and died there in 1475; the donor portrait at the birth of Christ is supposed to represent her father Markus (also Marx) Landauer, who died in 1468.

The altar wings made of fir wood of the former high altar of St. Catherine's Church are now in the collection of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg on permanent loan from the Bavarian State Painting Collections . The master or his environment is also given a picture of St. Assigned to Catherine.

The son of Marcus Landauer donated another altar in Nuremberg in 1511, which is also called the Landau altar . Albrecht Dürer created the altarpiece for this work .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Lutze, Eberhard Wiegand: Catalog of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. The paintings of the 13th to 16th centuries . Volume 1, Leipzig 1937, pp. 151–152.
  2. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Inv. No. Gm 880, 881, 882, 883 = Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Inv. No. 5324, 5363, 660 a and 660 b.
  3. ^ Bavarian State Painting Collections Inv. No. 15270.

literature

  • Henry Thode: The painting school of Nuremberg in the 14th and 15th centuries in their development up to Dürer . Frankfurt a. M. 1891, p. 163ff.
  • Ignaz Beth: The wings of the Landauer Altar in the Munich Pinakothek and the Augsburger Galerie . In: Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 28, 1905, pp. 457–465
  • Martin Weinberger: Nuremberg painting at the turn of the Renaissance and the beginnings of the Dürerschule (studies on German art history, vol. 217). Strasbourg 1921
  • Eberhard Lutze: Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) . In: Pantheon 13, 1934, pp. 262-269
  • Alfred Stange: German Gothic painting. Volume 9: Franconia, Bohemia and Thuringia-Saxony . Munich 1958, p.
  • Joachim Ahlborn: The Landauer family. From painter to mining lord (Nürnberger Forschungen 11). Nuremberg 1969
  • Alfred Stange: Critical directory of the German panel paintings before Dürer. Vol. 3 . Munich 1978, p.?
  • Robert Suckale: The renewal of the art of painting before Dürer 2 volumes. Petersberg 2009, p.?
  • Germanic National Museum Nuremberg, Peter Strieder: Panel painting in Nuremberg 1350–1550 . Königstein 1993, p.
  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars . Munich 2007, p. 998.
  • Mira Bell, Steffen Engelhardt, Flavio Redlich, Maria Zieglmaier (Eds.): Biographical Index of the Middle Ages . Munich 2008, p. 692.

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personal data
SURNAME Master of the Landau Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gothic painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century