School (artist)

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The term school is used in the context of art to describe groups or groupings of artists or to summarize and identify successors and students of leading representatives of a style. The word school is used in all art forms, albeit with varying definitions, e.g. B. Art history ( Cologne (painting) school , Rembrandt school , Wessobrunn school ), literature ( poet school ) or music history ( Italian school ).

Art history

Overarching definition

In the visual arts , a member of the school or workshop is generally referred to as an artist who worked with a formative (teaching) master or artists who have adapted strongly to the style of a painter even if they had not received instruction from him. The term is mainly used for the historical summary of medieval painters such as the Cologne (painter) school .

Painting school

Art history speaks of a painting school , sometimes also of a workshop, when it wants to summarize a common style, often not known by name, mostly medieval masters. Other terms are usually used for artists' associations that have dedicated themselves to a certain style.

Rubens and Rembrandt Schools

For successors of masters known by name, the term school is often used for successors to the great Dutch painters such as Rubens and Rembrandt .

Dombauhütte

In a broader sense, cathedral huts could also be referred to as 'schools' in art history, because architectural styles were created and handed down here, even if on the other hand it is primarily about large workshops.

Plasterers

Plasterers of the 17th and 18th centuries, whose style was influenced by their training or work at the Bavarian Benedictine monastery Wessobrunn, are summarized under the term Wessobrunn School (coined in 1888) .

Literary history

In literature, the poet school usually does not mean a master with his students and imitators, but a certain literary group that works particularly closely together.

Music history

In the history of music, school usually denotes a certain musical style, such as B. Venetian school , often also the national style of an era, such as B. Italian School .