Master of Eriskirch

The master of Eriskirch is a Gothic carver who was probably active in the Lake Constance area around 1420. It got its emergency name after groups of figures that he probably created for the parish church in Eriskirch on Lake Constance and of which four figures from different groups have been preserved. Today they can be seen in museums in Rottweil and Konstanz .

style

The expressive facial features of the figures of the master from Eriskirch , the design of the hand movements and the realistic folds of their clothes indicate the beginning of the late Gothic in the Lake Constance area, which had received impulses of the new art movements of a soft style from other regions such as the Upper Rhine or Burgundy.

Works

• Visitation of the Virgin Mary (group of figures, around 1420)
  • Elisabeth in anticipation , Dominican Museum Rottweil [1]
  • Maria in anticipation , Dominican Museum Rottweil [2]
• Crucifixion of Christ (group of figures, around 1420).
  • Mourning Mary, praying , Constance, Rosgarten Museum [3]
  • The other figures have been lost
• Entombment of Christ (group of figures, around 1420)
  • Mourning Maria Magdalena , Dominican Museum Rottweil
  • The other characters are lost

literature

• Master of Eriskirch . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 93 .
• Julius Baum : The Master of Eriskirch . In: Jahrbuch für Kunstsammler 2, 1922, pp. 43–46.
• Julius Baum: The Master of Eriskirch . In: The parish church Eriskirch . Friedrichshafen 1986, pp. 76-81
• Julius Baum: Masters and works of late medieval art in Upper Germany and Switzerland . Jan Thorbecke, Lindau 1957, p.?.
• Heinrich Getzeny (ed.), Julius Baum (preface): From the Lorenz chapel in Rottweil. Swabian sculptures from the 15th century . Emil Fink Verlag, Stuttgart 1927, p.
• Georg Lill : German sculpture . Volksverband der Bücherfreunde - Wegweiser Verlag, Berlin 1925, p. 86ff.
• Willi Stähle: The works of the master from Eriskirch in Rottweil . In: The parish church Eriskirch . Friedrichshafen 1986, p. 82.

Web links

Commons : Meister von Eriskirch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Master of Eriskirch (Dominican Museum)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eva Moser: Lake Constance: three countries - culture and landscape between Stein am Rhein, Konstanz and Bregenz . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2002, p. 152.

Category: German