Master of the Zwickau high altar retable

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As a master of Zwickau Hochaltarretabels is late medieval carver called, the figures for the high altar in St. Mary's Cathedral to Zwickau has created.

The reredos was delivered to Zwickau around 1479. It is one of the numerous works of art that the economically flourishing region of Saxony imported from Nuremberg around this time . The winged altar is seven meters wide when open, four pictures on the inside of the six-winged convertible altar are attributed to the well-known Nuremberg painter Michael Wolgemut , the paintings on the reverse are attributed to other painters. The carved figures of the outer wings show Mary with a cross of rays above a crescent moon in the center of the altar surrounded by female saints. The predella depicts ten ancient sages as well as Christ and the apostles. Several artists can be distinguished as carvers in these carvings, including the master of the Zwickau high altar retable as the head of a larger workshop that created them and the overall composition of the altar. Because of its size and its importance for the development of art in Saxony, the Zwickau Altar is of particular importance in terms of art history.

In addition to the Zwickau altar, other works are assigned to the master of the Zwickau high altar retable and his workshop, for example the Petrus altar in St. Sebald in Nuremberg .

literature

  • Johann Gottlob von Quandt : The paintings of Michel Wohlgemuth in the Frauenkirche zu Zwickau . Dresden, Leipzig 1838 ( online [accessed August 6, 2020]).
  • Stefan Roller: Nuremberg sculpture of the late Gothic. Contributions to the sculpture of the imperial city in the second half of the 15th century, Munich - Berlin 1999, p. 182 ff.
  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars . Munich 2007, p. 997.
  • Stefan Roller: The carvers . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): The Zwickauer Wolgemut Altar. Contributions to history, iconography, authorship and restoration. (Workbook 11 of the State Office for Monument Preservation). Görlitz 2008. pp. 66-77.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Markus Leo Mock: Art under Archbishop Ernst of Magdeburg . Berlin 2007, p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Zwickau high altar retable
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carver
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century