Master of St. Sigmund

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As Master of St. Sigmund one is late Gothic painter called, the 1426-1450 in the Puster Valley in present-day South Tyrol worked. The artist, who is not known by name, received his emergency name from the pictures he painted in 1435 on the wings of the altar in the church of the village of St. Sigmund in the Puster Valley west of Chienes .

The wings of the altar in St. Sigmund

The master of St. Sigmund painted the wings of the altar in St. Sigmund on the inside with four scenes from the life of Mary , on the outside there are saints such as St. B. Saint Christopher , patron saint of travelers. The altar, the middle part of which consists of carved figures, was possibly a donation from nobles in the Pusteria Valley to commemorate the birth of Duke Sigmund in 1427.

The retable is made of stone pine and is considered to be seldom well preserved. In the main shrine it shows three vertical compartments with tracery , the middle of which is exaggerated with a keel arch . The lower stage shows a three-figure approach.

style

Stylistically, the work of the master of St. Sigmund is at the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance . The influence of the painting of the Italian early Renaissance in Northern Italy z. B. from Siena can be seen. The work of the master, who can be proven up to 1450, can be seen as a forerunner of the style of Michael Pacher , who had a workshop in the Pustertal from around 1460.

Works

In addition to the winged altar in St. Sigmund, several other works are ascribed to the master of St. Sigmund, e. B. The birth of Christ in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.

identification

It is proposed to identify the master of St. Sigmund as an employee of the painter Hans von Bruneck or as himself.

The carver of the altar in St. Sigmund

The carver who created the figures of the altar in St. Sigmund is also sometimes referred to as the Master of St. Sigmund .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sz BR Ingruber: On to the live forever. -The interpretation of the Mary's death by Simon von Taisten . In: Heimatblätter. Local history supplement to the “Osttiroler Bote”, No. 6/2007, p. 2
  2. ↑ F.-H. Hye: The altar of St. Sigmund im Pustertal: a memorial in memory of the birth of Duke Sigmund the Coin-Rich? . In: Der Schlern, 46.1972, pp. 120–124
  3. ^ Theodor Müller: Gothic sculpture in Tyrol . Tyrolia-Verlag, Bozen-Innsbruck-Wien 1976, p. 23, 432, fig. 68, XVI, XVII, 69.
  4. ↑ Herbert Schindler: The carved altar . Pustet, Regensburg 1978, ISBN 3-7917-0550-4 , p. 34 .
  5. ↑ M. Koller: The winged altar by Michael Pacher in Sankt Wolfgang . Vienna 1998, p. 80
  6. ↑ see e.g. Thomas Blisniewski : “Great praise to this man” The boiling Saint Joseph and “The Nativity” on a panel by the Master of St. Sigmund . In: Cologne Museum Bulletin. Reports and research from the museums of the city of Cologne (4) 2000, pp. 2–13
  7. ^ E. Egg: On the Brixen painting in the first half of the 15th century . In: Der Schlern 41 (1961), pp. 87-94
  8. ↑ W. Pippke, I. Leinberger: Dumot art guide South Tyrol: Landscape and art a mountainous region north under the influence and southern European traditions . Ostfildern 2010, p. 134
personal data
SURNAME Master of St. Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION late Gothic painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century