Rubenow plate
The Rubenow panel is a late Gothic panel in the Greifswald Cathedral of St. Nikolai . It is considered to be the oldest surviving monumental group portrait with full figures in the German-speaking area and is also the earliest "scholarly picture" of Greifswald.
The Rubenow panel was created between 1460 and 1462. It is 1.50 m high and 2.15 m wide and was initially painted in tempera on oak wood and covered with oil paint. During the last restoration in 1992, incorrect additions were made to the inscriptions and to the professors' clothing, and the representation was not insignificantly falsified. Today the Rubenow plaque is in the chapel XIV of the cathedral.
It was commissioned by Heinrich Rubenow as a votive tablet and represents (from left to right) himself and the six other founding professors of the University of Greifswald Nicolaus Theodorici de Amsterdam , Bernhard Bodeker , Johannis Tidemann , Wilken Bolen , Bertold Segeberg and Johannes Lamside .
The whiteboard
The depiction shows a secular group picture of six professors from Greifswald and Rostock, a pedell, Heinrich Rubenow, the co-founder of Greifswald University, and the Madonna floating in a mandorla with the Christ child in her arms. Depicted as a full figure, lined up linearly and divided into two groups by the figure of Mary, the composition of the Rubenow panel is still based heavily on the model of medieval saints. This is also evidenced by the scrolls, which, however, contain the scholars' descriptions of life instead of pious psalms, which enables the unequivocal assignment of the subjects. Rubenow occupies a prominent position, in the foreground as the largest and most extensive figure clad in his glamorous rector's robe. The pedel kneels at his feet, holds a scepter in his folded hands and, like the other figures, faces the Madonna in the center of the picture.
Below the picture is a writing tablet in Latin, the translation of which reads:
“In the year one thousand, four times one hundred and three times twelve, I connect with them from Rostock. The first four scholars fell asleep during the difficult time of the transferred study. But the last two also die, in the year a thousand, four times a hundred and sixty. You, the lights of the world, were eloquent, deep in spirit; The world hardly has these chosen equals today. The first three with the last are buried here. The deceased fourth buried the Minorite Church, the fifth was his grave in the Marienkirche. Grant all this, Savior Christ, to enter the kingdom of heaven and not to perish in hell death. "
A copy of the board was made in the 18th century and is in the Greifswald Professorengalerie in the university auditorium. In 1995 it was cleaned and preserved by the Greifswald restorer Anja Gundermann.
literature
- Hans Georg Thümmel : The Greifswald Rubenow panel . In: Greifswald-Stralsunder Jahrbuch 12 (1979), pp. 122-160.
- Dirk Alvermann , Birgit Dahlenburg : Greifswald heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 .
Web links
- Literature on Rubenow table in the state bibliography MV
- DI 77, Greifswald, No. 142 (Jürgen Herold, Christine Magin), in: Deutsche Insschriften Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Face to face - the portrait of the 350th Rector of the University of Greifswald ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Restoration from 1992
- ↑ Dirk Alvermann, Birgit Dahlenburg: Greifswalder heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 , p. 10.
- ^ Restoration report , custody of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
