Master of the Speyer Altar

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So-called Speyer Altar, outside of the wing, Last Supper (around 1480), Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
So-called Speyer Altar, outside of the wing, feet washing (around 1480), Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

A late Gothic painter who ran an important workshop in the Palatinate or Mainz between 1480 and 1505 is known as the master of the Speyer altar . He received this emergency name after the traditionally named installation site ( Speyer ) of his Passion Altar. His work is influenced by the Dutch art of his time, with which he came into contact either directly or through contemporary painters from Cologne.

The Speyer Altar , which was built between 1480 and 1485, is a winged altar that is distributed today in its components to the Freiburg Augustinian Museum , the Berlin Gemäldegalerie and the Frankfurt Städel Museum .

Donor disc with the image of Johann von Dalberg (around 1480), Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum

The master was probably trained in a glass painter's workshop. Two panes of donor portraits of the von Dalberg family have also survived from him. Also parts of an altar for the Liebfrauenkirche in Mainz.

Often works by the master of the Speyer altar are assigned to the circle of the master of the house book or to himself. So far, no scientific agreement has been reached.

literature

  • Sven Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 148.
  • Uwe Gast: Painting in Mainz around 1500. From the master of the Speyer altar to Martin Caldenbach, called Hess . In: Peter Krawietz (Ed.): Gutenberg. Aventure and art . Herrmann Schmidt, Mainz 2000, pp. 650-661.
  • Daniel Hess: Master of the “medieval house book”. Studies on the caretaker question. Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1656-9 (basic).
  • JP Filedt Kok (ed.): From life in the late Middle Ages. The caretaker or master of the Amsterdam Cabinet. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam March 14th - June 9th 1985; Municipal gallery in the Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main September 5 - November 3, 1985. Amsterdam et al. 1985, DNB 210606932 .
  • Alfred Stange : The caretaker. Complete presentation and catalog of his paintings, engravings and drawings . Baden-Baden 1958, DNB 454831919 . (Studies on German Art History; 316) (problematic in the attributions)
  • F. Pelgen: The secret of the Speyer Passion Altar: spread over several locations: The work of an unknown master, probably originally made for the Speyer Cathedral . - In: Die Rheinpfalz / all regional ed. 60 (2004), No. 85 of April 10, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regarded as handwritten, for example in the catalog by Kok (ed.) 1985.
  2. ↑ Gemäldegalerie Berlin, the Apostles washing their feet
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Speyer Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the late Gothic
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century