Master of the Tennenbach Altarpiece

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An unknown Gothic painter of the late Middle Ages is referred to as the master of the Tennenbach Altarpiece . The Upper Rhine master gets his emergency name after the altar he created for the Cistercian monastery Tennenbach in the Black Forest towards the end of the 15th century.

School and style

The master of the Tennenbach Altarpiece is attributed to the workshop or at least to the circle of Jost Haller , a painter who worked in Strasbourg and Saarbrücken until 1485 . Like this he is still committed to the Soft Style , but also shows the influence of contemporary Dutch Gothic painting. B. in the pictures of Robert Campin and his student Rogier van der Weyden the realistic representation of details had begun. Typical of the figures in the paintings of the master of the Tennenbach Altar are their "almost childlike soft features".

Tennenbach Altar

The 15 panels of the Tennenbacher Altar still preserved today are distributed between the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe and the Augustinian Museum in Freiburg . It depicts scenes from the Passion of Christ and a cycle of Mary . The work is also called the “ Staufen Altar” after its later location .

Web links to images from the Tennenbach Altarpiece

  • Pictures from the altar of the master of the Tennenbacher Altar at Landeskunde Oberrhein, Central Office for Educational Media in the Internet eV [ZUM Internet eV], accessed December 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. C. Sterling: Jost Haller - painter to Strasbourg and Saarbrücken in the middle of the 15th century . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte Vol. 33 (1980) pp. 99–126
  2. ↑ `` Master of the Tennenbach Altarpiece: Crucifixion '' at Landeskunde Oberrhein, Central Office for Educational Media in the Internet eV www.zum.de accessed December 2009

literature

  • A. Stange: German Gothic painting. Volume OV. Southwest Germany from 1400 to 1450 . Munich / Berlin, German art publisher 1951
  • Late Middle Ages on the Upper Rhine. Painters and workshops 1450-1525 . Volume 1: Catalog volume. (on the Great State Exhibition of Baden-Württemberg, State Art Gallery Karlsruhe, September 2001 - February 2002). Stuttgart, Jan Thorbecke Verlag 2001