Stenter frame (painting)

Until the "invention" of the stretcher frame in the middle of the 18th century, artists only used stenter frames to stretch their canvases.

Stenter , in the older painting techniques literature glare or jambs called, are usually made up of four bars which are fixed with slotted or in überplatteter form. The corner connections were secured with wooden nails ( dowels ) or nails and occasionally reinforced with diagonal struts in the corners.

development

The original oval frame (left) was so unstable that it was replaced by a stretcher frame (right).

Until the middle of the 18th century, the canvases to be painted or primed (canvas paintings) were only stretched on a frame. Then slowly the transition to the stretcher took place . Today artists usually only use stretcher frames. Canvas paintings on the market are mostly mounted on stretcher frames, very rarely on stretcher frames.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knut Nicolaus: DuMont's image lexicon for determining paintings . DuMont Buchverlag, 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1243-1 , p. 206 .