Master of the Cloth Altar

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Master of the Tucher Altar: The Annunciation to Mary and the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ , 1440/1450 (central panel of the Tucher Altar )

A late Gothic painter from Nuremberg , whose name is not known for certain, is referred to as the master of the Tucher altar (or Tucher altar ) .

history

The artist got his emergency name after the altar he created around 1440 or 1450 for the Nuremberg Augustinian Hermit Church . This wall altar is named after the Tucher patrician family from Nuremberg , because they had it prepared for installation in the Carthusian Church in the 17th century and on this occasion had their coat of arms, which has now disappeared again, attached. The altar set up today in the Nuremberg Frauenkirche is considered to be one of the most important testimonies of panel painting in the imperial city of Nuremberg before Albrecht Dürer .

style

Tucher altar in the Frauenkirche (Nuremberg)

The style of the master of the Tucher altar already shows an influence of contemporary Dutch painting and the emergence of a new painting direction in Nuremberg. It is the previously used Gothic style such as B. came to Nuremberg from Bohemia.

History of the altar

Originally donated for the Augustinian Church in Sebald's old town, consecrated in 1486, the cloth altar was moved to the Frauenkirche after the monastery was closed.

The Tucher altar is like the Augustinian altar one of the four remaining preserved altars of St. Augustine's Church.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. BS Lüken: The Annunciation to Mary in the 15th and early 16th centuries . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2000, p. 178
  2. ^ P. Strieder: The cloth altar in the Nuremberg Frauenkirche . In: The art and the beautiful home 48, 1949, pp. 172–177
  3. ^ V. Höfner: The Frauenkirche in words and pictures: a brief information . Nuremberg, O. year (church leader)
  4. ↑ cf. see S. Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2000, p. 178
  5. ↑ cf. E. Pfeiffer: The Augustinian high altar and four other Nuremberg altars from the late 15th century . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, Vol. 52 (1963/64) pp. 305–398
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Cloth Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late Gothic Nuremberg painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century