Master of the Augsburg painter portraits
As a master of Augsburg Malerbildnisse one is a painter and draftsman named the 1500 probably in Augsburg worked. About twenty drawings made by him, for example with chalk, from the years 1502 to 1515 have survived. These are portraits of Augsburg painters and their assistants and they have given the artist, who is not known by name, his emergency name . The names of the portrayed Augsburgers are preserved on fourteen pictures. An oil painting is also attributed to the master.
Monogrammist BB
Since many of the portraits of the Augsburg painters are provided with the monogram BB , their draftsman is also known as the monogrammist BB .
style
Some of the portraits created by the master of the Augsburg painter portraits are close to the work and composition of the portraits of the important Augsburg painter, draftsman and wood cutter Hans Burgkmair . Therefore, it is sometimes assumed that the master was training in his workshop.
In contrast to the portraits of Hans Holbein the Elder , the draftsman of the Augsburg painter portraits was more strongly influenced by the representation of the individual in Renaissance painting . The painter portraits are less committed to a formulaic style still reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. They rather seek to put the personality of the person portrayed as a person and the official function of the person portrayed at the center of the work.
identification
Based on the monogram BB , it is suggested that the master of the Augsburg painter portraits , or more precisely the artist who used the monogram, could be Barthel Beham or Leonhard Beck , but this assignment is controversial.
Catalog raisonné
Most of the works assigned to the master of the Augsburg painter portraits and monogramists BB are in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett and further, for example, in the Hamburger Kunsthalle and in the State Museum in Copenhagen.
Whether the oil painting attributed to the master of the Augsburg painter's portraits comes from his hand cannot be determined without a doubt, as it does not match the quality and artistry of the drawings.
literature
- Beck, Leonhard (1475) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , pp. 142ff.
- Monogrammist BB . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 378 .
- Friedrich Dornhöffer: Beck, Leonhard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 140–141 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- H. Zimmermann: A painting by the master of the Augsburg painter portraits. In: Journal of the German Association for Art History. 18.1964, pp. 73-80
- Monogrammist BB (Master of the Augsburg Portraits of Painters) ( Memento from March 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), In: The Grove Dictionary of Art. Macmillan 2000, on artnet.com, in the Internet Archive on archive.org, as of 9 March 2005, viewed May 3, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monogrammist BB. In: Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002 (online 2010 edition)
- ^ W. von Seidlitz: Barthel Beham. In: J. Meyer: General Artist Lexicon. Volume 3. Leipzig 1885.
- ^ G. Wessling: The Augsburg painter and draftsman Leonhard Beck and his circle. Studies of Augsburg panel painting and drawings of the early 16th century. Dresden 2006.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master of the Augsburg painter portraits |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monogrammist BB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1500 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1515 |