Master of the Schlutup Altarpiece

Master of the Schlutup Altarpiece: St. Blasius Altarpiece in Burg on Fehmarn, 1513

Master of the Schlutup Altarpiece is an art-historical emergency name and designates an unknown Low German carver of the late Middle Ages who worked in his workshop in Lübeck at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century .

Naming

So-called. Schlutuper Altar

The master of the Schlutuper Altar got his name in the 20th century. It was named after the Schlutup clan altar dated around 1500 . The so-called altar in the collection of the St. Anne's Museum shows scenes from the rest of Jesus' family , the Holy Tribe. It contains two wing reliefs with scenes from the life of St. Catherine of Alexandria (around 1480/90), which were probably inserted by Carl Julius Milde . The altar is from the St. Catherine's Church and is probably the occupied there Annenaltar of Mary brotherhood of musicians and minstrels identical. At an unknown point in time, the altar shrine was given to the St. Andreas Church in Schlutup and from there it entered the museum's collection before 1847.

Art-historical classification

According to the art-historical classification, the carvings by the master of the Schlutuper Altar come from Henning von der Heyde's circle, the paintings from Bernt Notke's circle . When the altar was being built, the performing artists often did without a signature of their works. Art history therefore tries to assign further works to a characteristic work by an artist, such as the eponymous altar here, based on the artistic handwriting.

Works

The following works can be assigned to the master of the Schlutup Altarpiece:

• As an assistant to Henning von der Heyde, collaboration (namely the wing reliefs) with the master of the Arboga altar at the Lübeck Corpus Christi altar from 1496.
• the three altars from Västerljung , Osterhaninge and Vägnhärad in the museum of Strängnäs in Sweden ,
• the altar of Storkyro in Finland.
• the altar collegiate church of Bützow in Mecklenburg from 1501 (see also: Master of the Bützow altar ).
• the altar from Andenes in the Tromsø Museum .
• the altar of the Gertrudenbruderschaft der porters from 1509 from the Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) in Lübeck, today in the St. Anne's Museum.
• the altar with St. Blasius, St. Michael and Matthew from 1513 in the Nikolaikirche in Burg on Fehmarn .

literature

• Brigitte Heise, Hildegard Vogeler : The altars of the St. Annen Museum. Lübeck 1993, DNB 930560388 , p. 92ff.
• Uwe Albrecht , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume I: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum . Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-933598-75-3 , cat. No. 82, pp. 237-247.

Web links

Commons : Meister des Schlutuper Altar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Schlutup is a separate district of Lübeck that has partly retained its village character.
2. ^ Walter Paatz : Bernt Notke and his circle. Berlin 1939, DNB 362288186 , p. 166f.