Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece

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Masters of the Ortenberg Altar: Ortenberger Altar, scene The Holy Kinship, around 1420, Middle Rhine

A late Gothic painter from the first third of the 15th century is referred to as the master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after the altar he created for a church in Ortenberg in Hessen .

meaning

The master of the Ortenberger Altar was active on the Middle Rhine , possibly in Mainz . The three-part Ortenberger Altar is considered to be one of the most important masterpieces of Middle Rhine painting of the early 15th century. The master's assistants may have been involved in parts of the execution.

Works

Adoration of the Magi. Detail from the Ortenberg Altar ( Postage Stamp Berlin 1986 )

Ortenberger Altar

The Ortenberg Altar , today in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt , shows on the left panel the adoration of the baby Jesus by Mary, the adoration of the kings on the right panel and the holy clan on the large central panel . Today there is a copy of the work in the Ortenberg church .

It is believed that one of the kings who stands between two pages on the Ortenberg altarpiece, one of them with a ceremonial sword, could represent the king and emperor Sigismund .

Other works

Other works are ascribed to the master or his workshop, such as B. an adoration in the museum in Aschaffenburg .

literature

  • Gerhard Bott : The Ortenberger Altar in Darmstadt. Work monographs on the fine arts in Reclam's Universal Library. Stuttgart 1966.
  • Gerhard Bott: The Ortenberger Altar. Darmstadt 1981.
  • Hessisches Landesmuseum (ed.): The Ortenberger Altar. Introduction: G. Bott, addendum: W. Beeh. Darmstadt 1981.
  • EM Vetter: The Ortenberg Altar. With the collaboration of D. Hempelmann and R. Kühnen. Wiesbaden 2000.
  • Michael Schroeder: Marienkirche Ortenberg - art and history of the Marienkirche to Ortenberg. 1st edition. Editor: Ev. Kirchengemeinde Ortenberg, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. Schäfer: The Ortenberg Altar as a Middle Rhine work of art around 1400 . In: EM Vetter: The Ortenberger Altar. Wiesbaden 2000, pp. 63-124.
  2. ^ R. Kühnen: The Ortenberger Altar: Technological findings. In: EM Vetter: The Ortenberger Altar. Wiesbaden 2000. pp. 125-138.
  3. ↑ G. Schwedler: Ritual Dynamics . In: B. Dücker, G. Schwedler (eds.): The original and the new - On the dynamics of ritual processes in the past and present. Berlin 2008. p. 168 and footnote 54
  4. ↑ J. Fajt: (Ed.): Charles IV. Emperor by God's grace. Art and Representation of the House of Luxembourg 1310–1437. Catalog for the exhibition at Prague Castle 2006. Munich 2006