Master of the Sassenberg Altar

The painter who is unknown by name and who painted the pictures of the so-called Sassenberg Altar around 1517 is known as the master of the Sassenberg Altar . This winged altar is named after its place of origin, the castle chapel of Sassenberg Castle in the town of Sassenberg in the Münsterland , and also gives the master his emergency name . The master of the Sassenberg altar is said to have been active in southern Lower Saxony and Westphalia between 1486 and 1517 and painted another passion altar for the cathedral in Halberstadt in 1508.

The pictures of the Sassenberg altar are painted in oil on oak. On the inside they show scenes from the life, passion and resurrection of Christ on three wings . Mary and St. George are depicted on the outside . The altar is now in Münster in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History on permanent loan from the Westphalian Art Association.

literature

• Eleonore Roskamp-Klein: The Sassenberg Altar. The middle panel of the winged altar (signed JOHAN); Restoration, painting technique, the questions of attribution. In: Westphalia booklets for history, art and folklore. Volume 77, 1999, pp. 424-436.
• Ute Bednarz: The Sassenberg Altar (1517). In: Géza Jászai (Ed.): Imagination of the invisible. 1200 years of visual arts in the diocese of Münster. Exhibition catalog of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History October 1993. Münster 1993, pp. 444–447.
• The Sassenberg Altar. In: Heimatverein in Sassenberg (ed.): Up Sassenbiärg. Issue 9, December 1980.
• Master of the Sassenberg Altar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, inventory no. 116.