Master of the Irrsdorfer Altar Wings

The master of the Irrsdorfer Altarflügel , also called Master von Irrsdorf (* around 1480; active until around 1530) was a German carver. Since his name remains unknown, he is given an emergency name after one of his works.

Life

The master of Irrsdorf got his emergency name after four reliefs that have been preserved in the branch church Maria Himmelfahrt in Irrsdorf . His possible identity with the monogrammist IP has been discussed many times.

A collaboration with the painter Wolf Huber in Passau can be proven for the master von Irrsdorf . He transferred Huber's wrinkled robe style into relief, so that his reliefs and the painted panels convey a uniform overall impression.

Works by Wolf Huber , Albrecht Dürer and Andrea Mantegna can be identified as graphic templates for his carvings .

The master of Irrsdorf had his workshop in Passau and worked on some orders with the painter Wolf Huber or worked temporarily under his direction.

Appreciation

The master from Irrsdorf is about the same age as Wolf Huber, if not a little older. The master of Irrsdorf is still committed to the late Gothic. In doing so, he creates a space of depth in his reliefs, uses the standing motif of counter post and creates the landscape background. Once successful, he likes to repeat motifs within the composition.

Works

Work by the master of Irrsdorf

• Four scenes (Annunciation, Visitation, Birth of Christ, Adoration of the Magi), from the parish church in Irrsdorf: reliefs, linden wood, each approx. 100 × 63 cm, around 1523 (Salzburg: Museum Salzburg, Inv.-Nr. 191 / 28– 194/28)

Attributed works (selection):

• Holy clan with donor figure: relief, linden wood, 55 × 45.5 cm (Regensburg: Museums of the City of Regensburg, inv.no.K 1968/66)
• Holy clan (so-called Darmstadt clan): relief, wood, 62 × 75 cm (current location unknown, formerly Kremayr Collection, Vienna)
• Holy Kinship (Feldkircher Kinship) and other sculptures (Feldkirch: St. Nikolaus Cathedral)
• The fall of man and the work of the first parents: reliefs, linden wood, each approx. 69.5 × 35 cm (Frankfurt: Städtische Galerie - Liebieghaus, inv. No. 587, 430)
• Lamentation: relief, linden wood, 82 × 122 cm (Salzburg: Dommuseum)
• Baptism of Christ (fragment): high relief, wood, 37.5 × 73 cm (Landshut: Museums of the City of Landshut, inv.no. HV 62b)

Workshop group:

• Descent of the Holy Spirit: high relief, linden wood, 71 × 66 cm (Vienna: Belvedere , inv.no.1089)
• Encounter at the Golden Gate: high relief, wood, 62 × 64 cm (Salzburg: Dommuseum)
• Birth of Christ: relief, stone pine, 74 × 53 cm (Vienna: Belvedere, inv.no.4988)

literature

• Master of Irrsdorf . 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. 168-169 .
• Albin Rohrmoser:  Master of the Irrsdorfer wing panels. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 715 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Albin Rohrmoser: The wing panels of the former Irrsdorfer Marien Altar. Salzburg 1994 (= The work of art of the month of the Salzburg Museum Carolino-Augusteum. January 1994, 7th year, sheet 71).
• Jutta Reisinger-Weber: The monogrammist IP and his circle. (= New publications of the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research at the University of Passau. Volume 58) Dietmar Klinger Verlag, Passau 2007, ISBN 978-3-932949-66-1 .