Master of Hohenfurth

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Meister von Hohenfurth: Birth of Christ, around 1350

As a master of Hohenfurth or Master of the High Further cycle ( ch. Mistr Vyšebrodského cyklu ) is a medieval called painter of the High Gothic in Bohemia in the 14th century.

Work and meaning

The artist, not known by name, belongs stylistically to the Bohemian School of Painting . It got its emergency name after the nine panels painted in tempera on the chalk foreground with depictions from the life of Christ, which he created around 1350 and which were intended for the monastery church of the Cistercians in Hohenfurth in southern Bohemia. The panels are known as the Hohenfurt Cycle and were donated by the Bohemian Chamberlain Peter I von Rosenberg , who is shown in the picture of the birth of Christ at the bottom right. Today the cycle can be seen in the St. Agnes Convent of the National Gallery in Prague . The panel painting of the Glatzer Madonna attributed to the master is now in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie .

The master of Hohenfurth was one of the main representatives of the generation of painters who stayed at the court of Charles IV in Prague, and the first artist north of the Alps who knew Italian painting of the early 14th century and used it for his own pictures. Using carefully graduated colors, figures without depth are placed in front of an abstract gold background. They are characterized by a location in the flat pictorial space based on Italian models from the Giotto period . So had easel painting in the north found its own recovered from the medium of tempera painting out language. The elegance and delicacy of the figures and their lively facial expressions are summarized again. After that, bohemian painting broke new ground.

Together with Theoderich von Prag , the master von Hohenfurth overcame the soft Gothic style by adopting Italian motifs . As a result, Bohemian innovations became the prerequisite for all of German painting in the early 15th century, including Conrad von Soest and Stefan Lochner .

Trivia

On February 21, 2011, a series of stamps on the theme of Christmas 2010 was published on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts . The 30 c stamp depicts the painting of the birth of Christ by the master of Hohenfurth. The stamp has the Michel catalog No. 1174.

literature

  • Beet Bilzen (Ed.): The great book of art: illustrated book, art history, lexicon . Braunschweig 1959.
  • Jaroslav Pešina: Mistr Vysebrodského cyklu . Prague 1982 (The Master of the Hohenfurt Cycle. Czech edition with introductory text also in German).
  • Jaroslav Pešina: The Hohenfurt master . Translated by Lenka Reinerová. Prague 1982.
  • The great lexicon of painting . Westermann Verlag Braunschweig 1982.
  • Fritz Winter: Das rororo Künstler Lexikon 2, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985.
  • Johannes Jahn , Wolfgang Haubenreißer: Dictionary of Art (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 165). 12th, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-520-16512-0 .
  • Hans H. Hofstätter: Late Middle Ages . In: Kunst im Bild, Naturalis Verlag Munich.
  • Ingo F. Walther (Ed.): Painting of the world. An art history in 900 image analyzes. From the Gothic to the present . Cologne 1995.
  • Volker Gebhardt: Art history of German art . Cologne 2002.
  • Jiří Fajt u. a. (Ed.): Charles IV., Emperor by God's grace. Art and Representation among the Luxembourgers 1347–1437 (catalog of the exhibition at Prague Castle, February - May 2006). Munich, Berlin 2006

Web links

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