Master of the Wasservass'schen Calvary
The master of the Wasservass'schen Kalvarienberg was a painter from around 1415-1435, who probably lived in Cologne . It got its emergency name after the Calvary with the coat of arms of the Wasservass family, which was kept in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, which was probably created around 1420-1430. This reredos was probably donated by Gerhard von Esch, called von dem Wasserfass, to the St. Kolumba Church in Cologne . The family named themselves after the house of the same name in Cologne. Further works cannot be ascribed to the master with certainty. His artistic sources lie in the old Dutch painting and in the Burgundian book illumination of his time, less in Cologne painting , in which his work remains relatively isolated.
literature
- Frank Günter Zehnder : Catalog of the old Cologne painting . (Catalogs of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum XI). Cologne 1990, pp. 484-491.
Web links
- E. Richenhagen: In the center the cross , master of the Wasservass'schen Kalvarienberg, picture of the week, KW40-2010 , museums of the city of Cologne
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| SURNAME | Master of the Wasservass'schen Calvary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century |