Simon Franck

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Simon Franck , Simon von Aschaffenburg , master of the Gregors masses , also known as pseudo-Grünewald (born around 1500; died 1546 or 1547 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German painter who worked for Lucas Cranach 's workshop and especially created Christian motifs. He is considered to be the creator of the Passion Cycle in Halle .

Act

Franck's style suggests that he completed his training in the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder. The portraits ascribed to him show “a pronounced preference for a delicacy in the depiction, particularly recognizable from the filigree ornamentation , for example in the depicted robes”. One feature is the use of a cool color palette . His appointment as court painter is not guaranteed, as no evidence of payment could be proven. That he worked for the cardinal, however, testify to the orders he carried out for Albrecht von Brandenburg in his residence in Halle and that he later followed him to Aschaffenburg. Since August 17, 1540, he and his wife had owned a house with land there, which was given to him by the monastery in Aschaffenburg on favorable terms.

The works ascribed to him include the colorful altarpiece with inactive leaves in the Marktkirche in Halle . It is a panel painting on wood, which consists of two movable pairs of wings and a predella . There is evidence that Franck had worked for Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg since 1529 and had acquired citizenship in Halle. He left the city with the cardinal and died in Aschaffenburg in 1546/47. His main work is the cycle of saints and passions, which he is said to have created for the church of the New Abbey, today's cathedral, based on designs by Cranach.

He also produced designs for sculptors, goldsmiths and carpenters, was in charge of furnishing the Moritzburg from 1531 to 1532 and was responsible for transporting the art collection when the cardinal moved from Halle to Aschaffenburg in 1539/40. In Aschaffenburg he was entrusted with the construction management of the beguinage in the zoo.

Pseudo-Grünewald

Matthias Grünewald (St. Erasmus and Mauritius, 1520 to 1524)

The so-called pseudo-Grünewald (not the real Matthias Grünewald ) was a painter who added the side wings to the picture of “St. Erasmus and Mauritius ”is said to have created. At that time he was also working in Aschaffenburg. Since the wing portraits do not stylistically match the middle section, but rather are attributed to the Lucas Cranach school, it is assumed that the pseudo-Grünewald was either Lucas Cranach the Younger or, because of the softer forms, came from one of his students, as the Portraits do not have the signature typical of Cranach. Since many of the works of the pseudo-Grünewald were located in Aschaffenburg, the Kurdish Archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht von Brandenburg, is regarded as the client. The pseudo-Grünewald is identified as the painter Simon von Aschaffenburg, who worked for him at this time.

Attributed works (selection)

  • Lay altar mass and purgatory, Meißen (1518–1520 or 1526)
  • St. Martin (Albrecht von Brandenburg, around 1524)
  • Church of Our Lady in Halle, high altar from the Cranach School (around 1529)
  • two panels of Gregor's Mass (around 1525 to 1530)
  • Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as St. Martin (1543)
  • Magdalene altar of the collegiate church Halle (Saale)
Winged altar market church of our dear women

  • Albrecht of Brandenburg (after 1529)

  • Albrecht as St. Martin (1543)

  • Saint Ursula

literature

  • Paul Redlich: Simon von Aschaffenburg (To the Cranach exhibition in Dresden) . In: Ulrich Thieme, Richard Graul (Hrsg.): Kunstchronik: Weekly for arts and crafts . New episode. EA Semann, Leipzig October 1899, Sp. 436-439 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Wolfgang Speyer: Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Martin: to an unknown picture by Simon Franck . In: Josef Engemann (Hrsg.): Tesserae: Festschrift for Josef Engemann (=  yearbook for antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary volume 18). Aschendorff, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-402-08536-4 , p. 164-169 .
  • Andreas Tacke: The Catholic Cranach: on two major orders from Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä., Simon Franck and the Cranach workshop [1520–1540] (=  Berlin writings on art . Volume 2 ). P. von Zabern, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-8053-1228-8 , p. 41-71 .
  • Sabine Kramer: The Marien Altar in the market church in Halle: image program and history . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-89812-851-3 .

Web links

Commons : Simon Franck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verena Berens: Simon Franck. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, accessed on October 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Tacke: "Everything defeats Cupid" . In: "... we want to give space to love". Cohabiting ecclesiastical and secular princes around 1500 (=  series of publications by the Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt . Volume 3 ). Göttingen 2006, p. 359-368 , here p. 365 .
  3. ^ Academy of Sciences and Literature (ed.): Halle / Saale, Marktkirche, altarpiece with inactive wings. insschriften.net.
  4. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner: Simon von Aschaffenburg, painter 16th century. In: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-097344-0 , p. 1842 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Franz von Reber: Pseudo-Grünewald . In: History of painting from the beginning of the 14th to the end of the 18th century . Publishing House for Art and Science, Munich 1894, Cranach, Grünewald and Baldung Grien, p. 246 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Friedrich Niedermayer: Is the assumption of a pseudo green forest justified? In: Art Chronicle. Supplement to the magazine for visual arts . No. 9 , December 15, 1881, col. 129–132 ( digizeitschriften.de ).
  7. ↑ Lay altar [Predella]: Mass and purgatory. In: Cranach Digital Archive. lucascranach.org, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  8. ^ Joerg Stahlmann: St. Martin (Albrecht von Brandenburg, around 1524). In: Cranach Digital Archive. lucascranach.org, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  9. ↑ The story of the high altar in the market church in Halle. monumente-online.de, December 2013, accessed on October 18, 2018 . Maryan W. Ainsworth, Joshua Waterman: German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 . Yale University Press, 2013, ISBN 0-300-14897-6 , pp.
     76 ( books.google.de ).
  10. ^ Gregor's mass around 1525 to around 1530. In: Kulturgeschichte und Theologie des Bild. uni-muenster.de, accessed on October 18, 2018 . Gregory Mass around 1525. In: Cultural history and theology of the image. uni-muenster.de, accessed on October 18, 2018 .
  11. ^ Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. dommuseum-mainz.de, accessed on October 18, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Ralf Geissler: The Cardinal. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. September 8, 2006, accessed October 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pseudo-Grünewald; Master of the Gregorian Masses; Simon of Aschaffenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
DATE OF DEATH 1546 or 1547
Place of death Aschaffenburg