Master of the Leitmeritz Altar
As a master of Litomerice Altar , Master of the altar of Litomerice or master of the altar of Litoměřice ( ch. Mistr litoměřického Oltare) is a Czech called painter in the region by around 1500 Prague worked. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from an altar that he painted between 1502 and 1505 for a church in Litoměřice . Today the altar is only preserved in fragments and distributed among different owners.
The master of the Leitmeritz altar shows strong Renaissance influences from Italy but also from France and Flanders. While the Gothic painters in Bohemia, sometimes summarized as the Bohemian School of Painting , made Bohemia and Prague the most important centers of artistic activity in Europe and developed their own style until 1400, the importance of Bohemian painting then declined. Painters like the master of the Litoměřice Altarpiece then took up new artistic impulses towards the end of the 15th century, mainly the style of the surrounding regions. The master is one of the first representatives of the Renaissance in Bohemia. He is an important representative of painting during the Jagiellonian era at the beginning of the 16th century in Bohemia, a time of transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance in Bohemia. He stands at the beginning of the efforts under Wladyslaw Jagiellonczyk to renew the meaning of the Bohemian royal crown. In addition, the cult of the Bohemian national saints was promoted and the master of the Leitmeritz altar around 1509 commissioned with the second painting of the Wenceslas Chapel in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague in the Renaissance style. It is assumed, however, that the master was not dependent on the favor of the nobles as a court painter, but worked primarily for civil and church clients.
Paintings by the master of the Leitmeritz altar can now be found in the Litoměřice Art Gallery, in the Agnes Monastery of the National Gallery in Prague and in the Strahov Monastery Picture Gallery , also in Prague. A picture of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Strahov shows in the background one of the most important landscape representations in the Bohemian art of his epoch because of its details. Works by the master are also still in private ownership, from which fragments of the Leitmeritz Altarpiece were bought by the National Gallery in 1999.
Individual evidence
- ^ For example, communications from the Residency Commission of the Academy of Science in Göttingen, 9/2 (1999), pp. 23–28.
- ↑ so also Baedeker Allianz travel guide Czech Republic . Ostfildern 2008 and D. Arens: DuMont Art Guide Prague . Ostfildern 2010.
- ↑ G. Gurst, S. Hoyer u. a. (Ed.): Lexikon der Renaissance (= digital library; Vol. 41), Berlin 2000, CD-Rom
literature
- W. Hofmann: Modernism in the rear-view mirror: main paths in art history. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43540-8 .
- Narodni Galerie v Praze (Ed.): Obrazy z legendy o Sv. Katherine Alexandrijske: mistr Litomerickeho oltare a jeho . Prague 1999, ISBN 80-7035-207-8 . (Czech, catalog of the exhibition “Pictures from the Legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Master of the Leitmeritz Altarpiece and His Workshop”)
- Jaroslav Pešina: Panel painting of the late Gothic and Renaissance in Bohemia 1450–1550. Artia, Prague 1958, DNB 453739733 , pp. 33–45 and pp. 77–79, cat. No. 217–224 and fig. 133–174.
- E. Wetter: The importance of the Jagiellonian for art and culture in Central Europe (1450-1550). International Colloquium of the Humanities Center for History and Culture of East Central Europe eV Leipzig at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg from January 29th to February 1st, 1999 . In: Communications from the Residence Commission of the Academy of Science in Goettingen. Volume 9 (1999) No. 2, pp. 23-28.
- Narodni galerie v Praze (ed.): Bohemia & Central Europe, 1200-1550: The Permanent Exhibition of the Collection of Old Masters of the National Gallery in Prague at the Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia . Prague 2006, ISBN 80-7035-330-9 . (English)
