Master of the Wolfgang Altar

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As a master of Wolfgang altar or master of Wolfgang Altar is medieval painter referred to the 1450-1460 painted on a gold background altar of St. Wolfgang in the Sankt Lorenzkirche in Nuremberg . The epitaph altar for Peter Zenner, painted around 1460 for the Dominican Church in Nuremberg, is attributed to the master , one of the earliest known examples of an epitaph altar, today in the Trinity Church in Nuremberg.

He was still committed to the traditional way of painting that went back to Bohemian roots, as prevailed in Nuremberg in the middle of the 15th century, when a new painting direction arose under the influence of contemporary Dutch painting, for example by the master of the cloth altar .

The master probably ran a larger workshop and some other works are ascribed to him or his environment. For example, the master is said to have painted the Nuremberg Holy Spirit retable from around 1449, part of the Twelve Messenger Altar from the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Nuremberg, formerly in the Nuremberg Lorenz Church and today in the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Epitaph Altar . In: Ludwig H. Heydenreich, Karl August Wirth (Ed.): Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte . Volume 5, Stuttgart 1967, column 921.
  2. ^ Sven Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries: historical and art-historical investigations . Göttingen 2000, p. 178
  3. ↑ Kulturstiftung der Länder - Current Issues - Retable in Kolumba, 2010 ( online edition accessed September 2014 ( Retabel in Kolumba ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturstiftung.de

literature

  • Henry Thode : The painting school of Nuremberg in the XIV. And XV. Century . Frankfurt am Main 1891, p. 79ff.
  • Eberhard Lutze: The master of the Wolfgang altar in the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg and his circle . In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1932/33, pp. 8–42.
  • Peter Strieder: Panel painting in Nuremberg 1350-1550 . Königstein im Taunus 1993, p.
  • Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia . 2nd edition, Munich 1999, pp. 706ff.
  • Gerhard Weilandt: The Wolfgang altar of the Nuremberg Lorenz Church - image program, liturgical use and a new date . In: Christian Schmidt, Georg Stolz (Hrsg.): Hundred years association for the preservation of the St. Lorenzkirche 1903-2003 . Nuremberg 2004, pp. 71-79.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Wolfgang Altar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Wolfgang Altar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late Gothic Nuremberg painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century