Master of Osnabrück

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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:

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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Schweitzer : The sculpture collection of the City Suermondt Museum in Aachen. Creutzer, Aachen 1910.
personal data
SURNAME Master of Osnabrück
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and carver
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century