Master of the Mornauer portrait

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Portrait of Alexander Mornauer , around 1464–1488, National Gallery , London
Duke Sigismund of Austria, called “the rich in coins” , around 1465/70, Alte Pinakothek , Munich

As a master of Mornauer portraits ( English Master of the Mornauer Portrait ), the unnamed painter called, probably between 1464 and 1488, the portrait painted of the Landshut town clerk Alexander Mornauer. The picture is now in the holdings of the National Gallery in London.

identification

It was proposed to recognize the Tyrolean painter Michael Pacher in the master of the Mornauer portrait . The picture was also seen as a work by Joos Amman of Ravensburg . None of these identifications seem to be well documented.

Alexander Mornauer

Alexander Mornauer was the town clerk of Landshut from 1464 or 1488 . In the painting of the master of the Mornauer portrait he is holding a letter addressed to him, the honorable and wise all (x) other Mornawer . Mornauer's father was already a town clerk in Landshut from 1439 to 1464.

Web links

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  • Master of the Mornauer Portrait: Alexander Mornauer , approx. 1484–1488, illustration at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so in the holdings of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
  2. ↑ S. Foister: The Portrait of Alexander Mornauer . The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 133, No. 1062 (September 1991), pp. 613-618
  3. ↑ cf. Artist biography Master of the Mornauer Portrait at www.nationalgallery.org.uk. (accessed January 2010, English)
  4. ^ Monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein Adler. VOLUME III .. No. 130 1891 Vienna, self-published, 1891 (accessed on googlebooks January 2010
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Mornauer portrait
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Mornauer Portrait (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century