Master of the fountain of life

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Master of the Fountain of Life: The Seven Works of Mercy , around 1510; Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe

The Master of Life fountain ( Dutch Meester van de Levensbron ), sometimes called master of Prague Life fountain ( English Master of the Prague Fountain of Life ), was a name no longer known today painter of Early Netherlandish school, probably from 1500 to 1520 in the northern Netherlands was active. It got its emergency name from a plaque, dated 1511 and now in Prague ( Národní galerie v Praze , Inv.-No .: DO 4131) with the depiction of a fountain of life in the center of the picture.

life and work

Nothing is known about the origin and training of the master of the fountain of life . He received his emergency name in 1940 from KG Boon, who had previously been to Jan van Eyck and later Jacob Cornelisz. , attributed the assigned panel to another painter who had not yet been recorded in art history. Based on the representation of the fountain of life dominating the center of the picture, he created the emergency name Master of the fountain of life for him . This is a painting (oak wood, 71.5 × 59.8 cm) painted in 1511 , which the city of Prague acquired from the former Nostitz Gallery in 1945. According to the inscription Int. iaer ons. here. md en xi the xiiiden roof in julio. op S. Margarieten. roof sterf. heer / ian. Cleemenssoen. Ons Pater what educates. before cyn. aim Amen , the panel is now an epitaph picture and is accordingly cataloged under the title Epitaph of Jan Cleemenssoen with the fountain of life .

Boon recognized in the pictorial manuscript a stylistic similarity to the painters Meister von Alkmaar and Meister der Figdorschen Descent from the Cross, also unknown by name, and thus brought the painter into close proximity to the art circle, which is in the tradition and immediate successor of Geertgen tot Sint Jans .

Based on the Prague picture, Boon attributed a number of other works to the artist, for example the picture with the Seven Works of Mercy , painted around 1510 and composed of nine smaller panels , in Enschede , Rijksmuseum Twenthe (wood, 66 × 111 cm; Inv-No .: 39) , a mass of Saint Gregory the Great in Utrecht , probably painted between 1500 and 1510 , Museum Catharijneconvent (wood, 92.1 × 78.1 cm; Inv-No .: RMCC s 194) and another Version of the subject that was formerly in the holdings of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne and was sold in 1942.

Possible identity

To date it has not been possible to discover the identity of the master of the fountain of life. It cannot be ruled out that he is possibly identical with the Master of Alkmaar or the Master of Figdor's Descent from the Cross . Also an identification with Jacob Cornelisz suggested by Frimmel . continues to be conceivable.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A checklist of painters c1200-1976 Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art. London [first ed.], Volume 16, p 337, London 1978th
  2. ↑ KG Boon: Own Opmerkingen naar aanleiding van Vroege Nederlandsche Schilders. In: Oude Holland. 57, pp. 103-108.
  3. ^ C. Würbs : Directory of the Gräflich Nostitz painting gallery in Prague. Prague 1864, p. 5.
  4. ^ Theodor von Frimmel : A walk through the gallery Nostitz in Prague. In: Art Chronicle. 24, 1889, pp. 697-698.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the fountain of life
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Prague Fountain of Life; Master of the Prague Fountain of Life; Master of the Fountain of Life; Master of the Well of Life
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1500
DATE OF DEATH after 1520