Monogrammist AD
The monogrammist AD (* around 1500, active until after 1540) was a German carver.
life and work
The monogrammist AD learned in the workshop of the monogrammist IP in Passau or was a workshop member for some time.
The monogrammist AD used prints by Lucas Cranach the Elder for his works . Ä. and Albrecht Dürer . He was also familiar with drawings by the painter Wolf Huber from Passau.
For the monogrammist AD, the focus is on reproducing the relationship between people. He is very close to the compositional scheme of the monogrammist IP and, like the latter, is committed to the style of the Renaissance .
Works
- Works signed with AD
- Paris judgment: Relief, boxwood, 153 (6)?, 18.6 × 14.2 cm (Florence, Palazzo Pitti , Museo degli Argenti Inv.-No. Barghello u. 8 (129)
- Fall of Man: Relief, boxwood or pearwood, 11.6 × 8.4 cm (London, Wallace Collection Inv.No.S 291)
- Attributed work
- Fall of Man: Relief, unknown whereabouts.
literature
- Otto Kurz: A Sculptor of the Danube School. In: The Burlington Magazine. Volume 91, 1949, pp. 217-218, Figs. 4-6, 8-9.
- Jutta Reisinger-Weber: The monogrammist IP and his circle . (= New publications from 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 , pp. 80f., 319-323.
Individual evidence
- ^ A Sculptor of the Danube School. In: The Burlington Magazine. Volume 91, 1949, pp. 217-218, Fig. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monogrammist AD |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1540 |