Master of the Tegernsee high altar

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Tegernsee high altar, middle section: Crucifixion, Upper Bavaria, around 1445

The late Gothic painter who is not known by name and who painted the high altar for the monastery church of the Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee in Upper Bavaria around 1445/6 is referred to as the master of the Tegernsee high altar .

Naming

Initially, the altar was assigned to Gabriel Mälesskircher , a painter who worked in southern Bavaria in the second half of the 15th century; But then it could be proven that the altar came from the generation of painters before Mälesskircher and its creator, who is not known by name, was given a special emergency name after the work. Recent publications name a Gabriel Angler as a possible author of the work.

The artist is sometimes named after the Latin name of the altar with Tegernsee Tabula Magna as the master of the Tegernsee Tabula Magna . The name, which can be translated as large table , refers to the unusually large overall format of the altar at six meters high and six meters wide.

The Tegernsee high altar

The altar was dedicated to St. Quirinus , the patron saint of the monastery. The outer wings depict scenes from the martyrdom of the saint, while the inner and middle sections depict scenes from the Passion of Christ. The passion scenes depict the events in dramatic, so-called populous scenes, in muted gray and brown tones. The panel paintings still preserved from the altar, which was dissolved in the 17th century, are now in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and the Diocesan Museum of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

identification

According to recent art historical research, it is suggested that the Tegernsee high altar should be attributed to the work of Gabriel Angler , a painter who worked as a panel and fresco painter in Munich from 1430 and was the teacher of Gabriel Mälesskircher.

Stylistic classification

The master of the Tegernsee high altar belongs - like the master of the Pollinger panels - to a group of late Gothic painters in the Munich area who paint in a new Gothic realism that has grown from tradition and is locally influenced ; their narrative drama and drasticness were then decisive for painting in the second half of the 15th century in Upper Bavaria, even if the generation of painters after them was more influenced by the late Gothic style of painting in Flanders.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Buchner: The real Gabriel Mälesskircher. In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst NF 13, 1938/39, pp. 38–40
  2. ↑ Object link to Inv.Nrn. to be called up individually (L 10 / 213-216). Bavarian National Museum, Munich, accessed on August 12, 2017 .
  3. ^ Norbert Huse: Small art history of Munich. 3rd revised edition, Munich 2004, pp. 18–21
  4. ↑ Christian Klemm: Master of the Tegernsee Tabula Magna. In: Robert-Henri Bautier, Robert Auty, Norbert Angerman (ed.): Lexikon des Mittelalters Volume 6. Munich, Zurich 1993, Sp. 485
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Roth: The popular Kalvarienberg in literature and art of the late Middle Ages. Berlin 1958, pp. 80-82
  6. ↑ German National Museum, Gm1055. http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm1055
  7. ↑ Bavarian National Museum, L 10/213 to 10/216; L BStGS 1436
  8. ^ Diocesan Museum of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, L9901
  9. ↑ Volker Liedke: The Munich panel painting and carving art of the late Gothic II. From the plague year 1430 to the death of Ulrich Neunhauser in 1472. Munich 1982, p. 26
  10. ^ Tegernsee Altar, Master of the . In: Gordon Campbell (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art. Oxford 2009 (English, online version)
  11. ↑ Helmut Möhring: reflections on Tabula Magna and the rood screen crucifixion from Tegernsee. In: Hartmut Krohm, Eike Oellermann (ed.): Winged altars of the late Middle Ages. (Contributions to the international colloquium “Research on the winged altar of the late Middle Ages.” October 1990), Berlin 1992, pp. 127–143
  12. ^ Helmut Möhring: The Tegernsee altarpiece by Gabriel Angler and Munich painting from 1430–1450. Munich 1997

literature

  • Karl Feuchtmayr: The Beginnings of Munich Panel Painting - Exhibition in the New State Gallery. Munich 1935
  • Ernst Buchner: The real Gabriel Mälesskircher. In: Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts. NF 13, 1938/39, pp. 38-40
  • Volker Liedke: The Munich panel painting and carving art of the late Gothic II. From the plague year 1430 to the death of Ulrich Neunhauser in 1472. Munich 1982
  • Tegernsee Altar, Master of the . In: Gordon Campbell (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art. Oxford 2009 (English, online version)
  • Mälesskircher, Gabriel. In: Colum Hourihane (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. Volume 3, Oxford 2012, p. 185
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Tegernsee high altar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Tegernsee Tabula Magna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century