Master of the Palanter Altar

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The Gothic painter who painted the altar donated on July 12, 1429 by Ritter Werner, Herr von Palanter und Breidenbach , bailiff of Randerath , for the parish church in Linnich is known as the master of the Palanter Altar (or Pallanter Altar ) . The painter belongs to the Cologne school and is close to the master of Saint Veronica .

In the 16th century the altar was transferred to the church in Rurdorf and then sold in the 18th century. The pictures on the altar are distinguished by their remarkable closeness to reality and are now distributed among museums in Aachen, Berlin, Cologne and Nuremberg. They show pictures of saints such as John the Baptist, Catherine, John the Evangelist and Lucia. The composition of the original can no longer be determined exactly after the altar from 1895 was divided up, the middle section was probably a coronation of Mary, today in the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne . The master of the Palanter Altar was also given a panel with St. Attributed to Hieronymus in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

literature

  • L. Scheibler and C. Aldenhoven : History of the Cologne School of Painting . Lübeck 1902.
  • Early German Art . Exhibition. Burlington Fine Arts Club. London 1906 (exhibition catalog).
  • E. Quadflieg: The Palanter Altar and its Master . Aachener Kunstblätter AKB 24/25 (1962/63), pp. 246-252.
  • H. Wesseling: A village and its church - St. Pankratius Rurdorf on historical ground . Leutesdorf 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Palanter Altar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Pallanter Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Gothic painter
DATE OF BIRTH before July 12, 1429
DATE OF DEATH after July 12, 1429