Master of Osnabrück
Master of Osnabrück is the emergency name of a Lower Saxon or Westphalian sculptor and carver who was active in the first third of the 16th century. His surviving works are piling up in Osnabrück and the surrounding area, so that “his” workshop should have been there.
The Master of Osnabrück was named with his emergency name in 1910 after eight large sandstone apostle statues that stood in the ambulatory of the Osnabrück Cathedral . This attribution only lasted with regard to the emergency naming of the master. Maybe he was working with one or more assistants. In order to explain small differences and discrepancies, art history has eliminated several other independent bearers of emergency names from the work of the master from Osnabrück. This began with the most important master of the Snetlage epitaph , named after the epitaph donated by Canon Snetlage (1517) in the Osnabrück Cathedral, and over the course of time led to a differentiation into a main master and seven secondary masters, who are also independent may have been working assistants of the chief master. These were further named with emergency names as follows:
- Master of the Crucifixion Group in the Thomée Collection in Altena in the collection of District Administrator Fritz Thomée (1862–1944) in Altena ;
- Master von Huckarde , based on the wooden sculptures from Huckarde of the Pietà and Anna Selbdritt in Paderborn Cathedral ;
- Master of the Cologne Pietà , Museum Schnütgen in Cologne ;
- Master of the Stockkämper double figure , named after the double image of Maria and Anna Selbdritt in the church of Stockkämpen near Hörste (Halle) ;
- Master of Belmer Andreas based on the figure of St. Andrew in the St. Dionysius Church in Belm ;
- Master of the Thieberg Relief , named after the relief of the Nativity in the chapel on Thieberg near Rheine ;
- Master of the Aachener Christopherus after the wooden figure in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen .
This development shows: Over time, the master of Osnabrück turned out to be a collective term for the sculpture of the transition period in the Osnabrück area - and less than a specific artist. The emergency name for one and the same person became a collective term within which it was then re-sorted and assigned. It can be assumed that if the signatures and documents are missing, this assignment can hardly ever be brought to a secure conclusion due to the large volume of works associated with the master of Osnabrück .
literature
- Hanns Meinhard: The Master of Osnabrück. His factory and his workshop . Dortmund 1928.
- Hans-Joachim Manske : The master of Osnabrück: Osnabrück sculpture around 1500. Wenner, Osnabrück 1978, ISBN 3-87898-130-9 ( Osnabrück historical sources and research vol. 21), (at the same time: University of Bonn, dissertation 1974).
- Hans-Joachim Manske: Master of Osnabrück. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 718 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Schweitzer : The sculpture collection of the City Suermondt Museum in Aachen. Creutzer, Aachen 1910.
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SURNAME | Master of Osnabrück |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and carver |
DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |