Strasbourg painter's book

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The Straßburger Malerbuch ( Strasbourg Manuscript ) is the oldest known manual for painting technique in German. The manuscript was written in the 15th century, probably in Alsace.

The original manuscript was destroyed in a fire at the Strasbourg city library in 1870, but an older copy is now in the library of the National Gallery in London.

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The text is divided into three parts. The first part is about a. of the production of dyes and names 'master Heinrich von lübegge' as the originator (= Lübbecke ? Lübeck ?, probably a Strasbourg doctor who also wrote the plague therapy text called the treasure of wisdom ). The second has as the responsibility of 'Master Andres von Colmar' and deals with the production of rubber solutions, inks and watercolors. The third part is anonymous and contains a variety of recipes that may a. describe the production of oil paints .

To tradition

In the 1840s, the English art scholar Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865 ) received a copy of the Strasbourg manuscript A.VI.19 from his friend Ludwig Gruner (1801–1882). Eastlake used it as a source for his Materials for a History of Oil Painting . This copy, which has been considered the best text witness since the original was lost in 1870, came from Eastlake's possession to the National Gallery in London and is kept there in the library under the call number 75.023 STR. It served as a template for a second copy, which Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), as director of the National Gallery, had made after 1893 and made available to the Munich painter and art historian Ernst Berger (1857-1919). Berger used this second copy as the basis for his edition of the Strasbourg painter's book (1897). There are many significant differences between the Eastlake manuscript and Berger's edition, due to either Poynter's copyists or Berger's editing.

Remarks

  1. ^ Wolfgang Wegner: Heinrich von Lübeck. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 563.
  2. ↑ Gruner was a copper engraver and an art advisor at the English court between 1845 and 1856 (see Jonathan Marsden: Mr Green and Mr Brown: Ludwig Gruner and Emil Braun in the service of Prince Albert . Royal Collection Trust, London 2012).
  3. ^ Charles Lock Eastlake: Materials for a History of Oil Painting Longmans, London 1847, p. Viii (reference to 'Mr Lewis Gruner') and 126–140 (excerpts with English translation).
  4. ↑ Ernst Berger: Sources and technique of fresco, oil and tempera painting in the Middle Ages from the Byzantine period up to and including the 'invention of oil painting' by the van Eyck brothers [...] (= contributions to the history of the development of painting technique 3). Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1897 (contributions to the history of the development of painting technique 3), p. 143f. u. 154-176. 2nd edition, Callwey, Munich 1912.
  5. ^ William Jervis Jones: Historical Lexicon of German Color Designations , Vol. I: Introduction, Bibliography, Old High German, Middle High German . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, p. XCVf.
  6. ↑ For related color-technical texts of the Strasbourg family see Sylvie Neven, Robert Möller, 'The Terms of Colors and their Changes in the Strasbourg Family Texts', in: Ingrid Bennewitz u. Andrea Schindler (Ed.): Color in the Middle Ages. Materiality - mediality - semantics . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 377–394.

literature

  • Max Doerner : Painting material and its use in the picture. 23rd ed., Ed. Thomas Hoppe. Christophorus Verlag, Freiburg 2010.
  • Vera Trost, Gundolf Keil : Strasbourg painting book , in: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd ed. by Kurt Ruh [et al.]. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, Vol. 9 (1995), Col. 380-383; Vol. 11 (2004), col. 1461.
  • Sylvie Neven: The Strasbourg Manuscript. A Medieval Tradition of Artists' Recipe Collections (1400-1570) . Archetype Publications, London 2016, ISBN 9781909492417 .

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