Master with the bib

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Detail of the Anna selbdritt group. Johannes altar, St. Valentinus , Kiedrich

Meister mit dem Brustlatz is the emergency name of a Middle Rhine , late Gothic artist and wood sculptor , whose period of activity was between 1486 and 1515. His workshop is believed to be in Mainz or in the Mainz area.

life and work

At the end of the 15th century, works by artists and their workshops were created on the Middle Rhine, marking the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance . These include the works of the master with the bib, whose female statues of saints are predominantly characterized by an ornamental bib over the cleavage. The name derived from this was introduced in 1925 by the art historian Grete Tiemann .

The church of St. Valentinus in Kiedrich in the Rheingau is particularly rich in the works of the breastplate master and his workshop . In the reredos of the Johannes altar there, the linden wood figures of the Anna selbdritt group and in particular the eponymous figures of the evangelist Johannes and Johannes the Baptist in the design of individual traits as well as the physical formation point beyond the art of the late Gothic. Other, simpler figures of saints in the bursting of the altar and in the church are assigned to the master's workshop.

The church of St. Markus in Erbach im Rheingau has one of the master's main works with the carved figure of the evangelist Markus on the desk . The writing Markus embodies a humanistic erudition, an intellectual movement that was typical of the late Middle Ages .

The master with the bib always uses the same canon of types and forms within his work, such as the schemes of his robes or the mostly rigid Gothic body structure. A type that has been developed once is used again and again, but the forms of the figures once found become less hard in the course of development, the fabric formation of the garments no longer angular and sharp, but livelier, rounder and more graceful, a development that becomes particularly evident when compared the self-third groups from Hamburg, Kiedrich and Limburg. However, the master is unable to truly step out of late Gothic traditions.

Within the Middle Rhine sculpture around this time there was probably a connection to the sculptor Hans Backoffen .

Selection of works

The selection of works is subject to an approximate chronological order.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grete Tiemann: Contributions to the history of sculpture in the Middle Rhine region around 1500 . Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, 8th edition 1930. P. 71
  2. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse II: The Darmstadt District , p. 226, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173
  3. ^ Peter Metz: "Backoffen, Hans, von Sulzbach". In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), p. 506 f. (Online version)

literature

  • Wolfgang Riedel: The master with the bib. Contributions to the catalog of works by a late Gothic sculptor from the Middle Rhine. In: Mainzer Zeitschrift , 71/72, 1976/77
  • Wolfgang Riedel: The master with the bib. Aspects of his work in the parish church of Kiedrich. In: St. Valentinuskirche in Kiedrich 1493-1993 for the 500th anniversary of its completion. Walter's publishing house, Eltville 1993, ISBN 3921865042
  • Paul Claus: Pictures of Mary of the Gothic in the Rheingau , Georg August Walter's Printing & Publishing, Eltville in the Rheingau 1995, ISBN 978-3921865064

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personal data
SURNAME Master with the bib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breast master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Artist and wood sculptor, active in the Middle Rhine
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century