Master of Flémalle

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The Mérode Altar, c. 1425

Master of Flémalle (also: Master of the Mérode Altar) is the emergency name of a Flemish painter who worked from around 1410 to 1440 .

Emergency name and the question of identity

The unknown artist got his emergency name after three picture panels, which belong to the most important and at the same time most enigmatic works of old Dutch painting. The Aachen cloth merchant Ignaz van Houtem brought them to the Städel in Frankfurt in 1849 with the declaration that they supposedly came from the "Abbey of Flémalle". However, they cannot come from the Belgian town of Flémalle near Liège , as there is no abbey there at all and no other outstanding church building. However, there was the named Vlierbeek Abbey near Leuven , which was dissolved and sold during the time of the French occupation between 1796 and 1798. Derived from the incorrect designation of origin, the creator of these three tablets was given the emergency name "Meister von Flémalle" by Hugo von Tschudi around 1898 . Today, however, it is clear that this name is definitely not correct.

Further paintings are ascribed to the nameless master of these three panels from Aachen. Since the group of works is very close to the art of Rogier van der Weyden , the master von Flémalle was identified with Robert Campin from Tournai , because it is proven that Rogier van der Weyden was active in his workshop from 1427 to 1432. Recent research claims that the works previously attributed to the "Master of Flémalle" did not come from the hand of a single artist, but from several different painters who may have worked together on individual works such as the Mérode altar . Whether one of these artists can be identified with Robert Campin, and if so, which one, is uncertain. In contrast, other researchers defend the unity of the work and the identification with Robert Campin.

Works

The so-called "Flémaller Tafeln":

  • Mercy Seat, Frankfurt a. M., Städel Museum
  • Saint Veronica, Frankfurt a. M., Städel Museum
  • Breastfeeding Madonna, Frankfurt a. M., Städel Museum

Other works:

  • Mercy seat

  • Saint Veronica

  • Breastfeeding Madonna

  • Fragment of a crucifixion with the evil thief

  • Madonna

  • Christmas picture

  • Portrait of a fat man

Exhibitions

  • 2008/2009: The master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden. Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main, and picture gallery of the State Museums in Berlin.
  • 2017/2018: In new splendor. The Master of Flémalle's thief fragment in context . Liebieghaus , Frankfurt am Main. Catalog.

literature

  • Albert Châtelet: Robert Campin. Le Maître de Flémalle. La fascination du quotidien. Mercatorfonds, Antwerp 1996, ISBN 90-6153-364-3 .
  • Stephan Kemperdick: The Master of Flémalle. The workshop of Robert Campins and Rogier van der Weyden. Brepols, Turnhout 1997, ISBN 2-503-50566-X .
  • Stephan Kemperdick, Jochen Sander (eds.): The master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden. Exhibition catalog of the Städel Museum Frankfurt, November 21, 2008 - February 22, 2009 and the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, March 20, 2009 - June 21, 2009. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2258-2 .
  • Otto Pächt: Van Eyck, the founders of old Dutch painting. Prestel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-1033-X , chapter Der Meister von Flemalle , pp. 35-78 (style analysis).
  • Jochen Sander (Ed.): In new splendor. The restored thief fragment by the Master of Flémalle in context. Exhibition catalog of the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt, November 15, 2017 - February 18, 2018. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3251-5 .
  • Master of Flémalle . 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. 98-101 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Thürlemann : The connoisseurship in the crisis. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 14, 2009 ( nzz.ch ).
  2. ↑ Gnadenstuhl , Städel, digital collection.
  3. ↑ Saint Veronika , Städel, digital collection
  4. ↑ Breastfeeding Mother of God , Städel, digital collection.
  5. ^ The thief to the left of Christ , Städel, digital collection.
  6. ^ Image description at the National Gallery
    L. Campbell, D. Bomford, A. Roy, R. White: “The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen”: History, Examination and Treatment. In: National Gallery Technical Bulletin. Volume 15, pp. 20-35 ( nationalgallery.org.uk ).
  7. ↑ Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece). on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website
  8. ↑ Description of the picture at SMB-Digital
  9. ↑ Description of the picture on the museum website
personal data
SURNAME Master of Flémalle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century