Paumgartner altar

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The Paumgartner Altar (Albrecht Dürer)
The Paumgartner Altar
Albrecht Dürer , after 1503
oil on wood
157 × 248 cm
Alte Pinakothek , Munich

The Paumgartner Altar is a triptych designed winged altar by Albrecht Dürer . The painting, created after 1503, is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich .

Origin and motif

Albrecht Dürer painted the picture for the Paumgartner family from Nuremberg after 1503 . She is shown as donor figures on the left and right lower edge of the central panel. A typical representation of the birth of Christ can be seen on the central panel . On the left wing is St. George , a portrait by Stephan Paumgartner, with a dragon. On the right is St. Eustachius , a portrait of the Paumgartner brother, Lukas. A scene of the Annunciation is depicted on the outside of the wings, with only the Madonna remaining. Dürer's monogram is on the roof support beam.

The altar was sold to Elector Maximilian of Bavaria in Munich around 1614 . Since it did not correspond to the aesthetic sense of the time, the altar was reworked. The donor family has been painted over on the central panel. The wings were attached, that is, enlarged. The knights were given helmets and horses. In addition, the wings were given a landscape in the background to create a continuous horizon line on the altar. At the beginning of the last century these changes were reversed.

On April 21, 1988, Hans-Joachim Bohlmann doused the Paumgartner Altar , the Lamentation of Christ for Albrecht Glimm and the Mater Dolorosa with sulfuric acid, which ate right into the wood, which destroyed 70 percent of the pictures. The Paumgartner Altar, which was worth $ 40 million at the time, lost about 30 percent of its value as a result. After 21 years of restoration, the works were exhibited again in 2010.

literature

  • Caterina Limentani Virdis, Mari Pietrogiovanna: winged altars: painted polyptychs of the Gothic and Renaissance periods. Hirmer, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7774-9520-4 .

See also

  • Heller Altar (Triptych by Dürer and Grünewald, 1507–1511)

Web links

Commons : Paumgartner Altar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paumgartner altar in the Alte Pinakothek
  2. ^ Gisela Goldberg, Städel Jahrbuch, NF 9, 1983, p. 129 ff.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Decker: Dürer and Grünewald. The Frankfurt Heller Altar. Framework conditions for altar painting. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 3-596-11580-9 , p. 37 ff.
  4. ↑ 3 Durer Masterpieces Vandalized With Acid The New York Times, April 22, 1988 (English)
  5. ^ John Bailey: Cleaning up after a serial art vandal. In: The Age. February 20, 2011, accessed April 21, 2013 .