Master of the Schwabacher Altar

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Master of the Schwabacher Altar : John the Baptist. Schwabacher Altar, around 1506/1507

As a master of the Schwabacher altar or master of Schwabacher high altar one is medieval painter called, the beginning of the 16th century worked. The painter, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from the pictures he painted for the altar of the St. Johannes and St. Martin church in Schwabach near Nuremberg. The winged altar, built between 1506 and 1508, has been known as the Schwabacher Altar since the beginning of art history , the pictures by the master of the Schwabacher Altar depict scenes from the life of the patron saint of the Schwabach town church, on the one hand four biblical scenes from the life of John the Baptist , on the other hand four scenes from the legends of Saint Martin . The master was at work at the altar in all likelihood in the Nuremberg workshop of Michael Wolgemut operates. The altar was ordered from this and Wolgemut himself is said to have contributed two more pictures to the altar. The painting style of the master of the Schwabacher Altar stands out from these pictures of his workshop manager and already shows more similarities with the style of Albrecht Dürer , who also worked at Wolgemut. The master's style is already less formulaic and freer than the traditional painting style in Nuremberg of his time.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Thode: The painting school of Nuremberg in the XIV. And XV. Century . Frankfurt am Main 1891, pp. 219-227.
  2. ↑ Master of the Schwabach High Altar . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Fine artists, artisans, scholars . Saur, Munich 2007, p. 999.
  3. ^ Moritz Thausing : Dürer. History of his life and his art Volume 1 . Leipzig 1884, p. 62ff .; Ludwig Kaemmerer: The landscape in German art until Albrecht Dürer's death . Leipzig 1886, p. 6.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Bode : History of German sculpture , Berlin 1887, p. 119; Woldemar von Seidlitz :  Wolgemut, Michel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 118-122.
  5. ^ Woldemar von Seidlitz :  Wolgemut, Michel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 118-122.

literature

  • Henry Thode : The painting school of Nuremberg in the XIV. And XV. Century . Frankfurt am Main 1891, pp. 219-227 ( digitized version ).
  • Master of the Schwabach High Altar . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Fine artists, artisans, scholars . Saur, Munich 2007, p. 999.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Schwabacher Altar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Schwabach High Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late Gothic Nuremberg painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century