Master of Liesborn

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Liesborn Altar, around 1465, detail

As a master of Liesborn one is late medieval painter called, the 1460 to 1490 in Westphalia worked. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after the Passion Altar, which he created for the Benedictine Abbey of Liesborn after 1465 . It is believed that the painter is identical to Johann von Soest .

Works and impact history

In addition to the altar from Liesborn, only a few other preserved works can be assigned to the master from Liesborn, including a passion altar in the Maria zur Höhe church in Soest . The Lünen Altar and the Lipporger Altar are also attributed to the master and his workshop . His work exerted a great influence on contemporary and subsequent Westphalian painters, for example in the works of the master of 1473 .

The master of Liesborn himself shows a strong influence by Dutch painters such as Dieric Bouts and Roger van der Weyden . As with the Annunciation scene from Liesborn, his depiction of architecture, correct perspective of the interior and details of the furniture show this relationship. The master was also familiar with painters from Cologne such as the master of the life of the Virgin Mary . The reference to the so-called Cologne School of Painting is particularly evident in the images of saints on the altar from Liesborn.

A small part of the pictures by the master von Liesborn was originally attributed to the master von Cappenberg and thus Jan Baegert .

The high altar of the Liesborn monastery church

The former Liesborn altar showed Christ on the cross in the middle, as well as other scenes from the life of Mary and saints. The altar was probably not a winged altar, but the pictures were lined up next to each other. Today it is only preserved in fragments. The Liesborn Altar, which had already been dismantled in 1704, was sold to private individuals in more than 14 individual parts at the beginning of the 19th century in the course of secularization. Significant pieces are now in the possession of the National Gallery, London and the Westphalian Art Association or the Westphalian State Museum in Münster, where they are counted among the “most beautiful and most important paintings in the collection”.

Some of the parts of the Liesborner Altar were then and are still partially attributed to the Master von Cappenberg or a workshop of the Master of the Liesborn Altar.

literature

  • G. Gietmann: The Master of Liesborn . In: The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York 1910 (English)
  • CG Heise: North German painting. Studies on their development history in the 15th century from Cologne to Hamburg . (Dissertation). Kiel 1916
  • M. Ihmdal: The master of Liesborn . In: Heimatkatalog Beckum 1953, pp. 31–33.
  • P. Pieper: The Liesborn Altar . In: Kunstchronik 6/1966
  • P. Pieper: The master of Liesborn and the Liesborn panels . In: Westphalia - Hefte für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde Volume 44 (1966), pp. 5–11
  • P. Pieper: The Liesborn panels - catalog and reconstruction . In: Westphalia - Hefte für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde Volume 44 (1966), pp. 12-19
  • Th. Rensing: Comments on the master of Liesborn . In: Westphalia - Hefte für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde Volume 44 (1966), pp. 22–54
  • W. Koenig: Studies for the master of Liesborn with special consideration of the development history of the Liesborn high altar . Beckum 1974
  • R. Karrenbrock: Johann von Soest, the master of Liesborn . In: Westphalia - Booklets for History, Art and Folklore Volume 66 (1988)
  • S. Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries . Göttingen 2000
  • E.-U. Hammer: Monastic reform between person and institution: On the work of Abbot Adam Meyer von Gross St. Martin in Cologne (1454-1499) . (Dissertation, publications by the Max Planck Institute). Göttingen 2001

Web links

Commons : Meister von Liesborn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master of Liesborn . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002. Online edition, accessed January 2011
  2. ^ R. Karrenbrock: Johann von Soest, the master of Liesborn . In: Westphalia - Booklets for History, Art and Folklore Volume 66 (1988)
  3. ↑ A. Schulte-Peevers et al. a .: Lonely Planet Germany . Melbourne et al. a. (Lonely Planet Publications) 2004 (English)
  4. ↑ A.-M. Reichel: The clothes of passion. For an iconography of the costume . Dissertation, online (digital) edition (Berlin 1998), appendix
  5. ↑ cf. also: P. Pieper: Jan Baegert and the Liesborner Altar . In: Westphalia - Hefte für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde Volume 44 (1966), pp. 55–57
  6. ^ H. Kornfeld: A Westphalian Altarpiece . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 62/361 (1933), p. 160
  7. ^ LWL Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): (Press) release from March 6, 2008 - A house for art for 100 years . Münster 2008
personal data
SURNAME Master of Liesborn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann von Soest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1465
DATE OF DEATH after 1470