Master AA

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Master AA is the emergency name for a late Gothic master who cannot be precisely identified , who only left his monogram on his work and to whom various works are ascribed.

Life

Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven and Karl Garzarolli-Thurnlackh associate the monogram with Andre Astl, a member of a Wels artist family or workshop, to which the sculptor Lienhart Astl also belonged. The painting belongs to the Danube School .

Attributed works

Image of the dead of Emperor Maximilian I, tempera on parchment 1519

The Grossreifling Altar

The altar was made in 1518 for the Großreifling branch church and is now in the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz. The painter has immortalized himself in it with the initials AA. The predella and the wings show scenes from the Passion of Christ, which are closely based on Dürer's small woodcut and copper engraving Passion and the life of Mary. The color scheme is typical for the Danube School. The crucifixion group in the middle is by another artist.

Image of the dead of Emperor Maximilian I

Kurt Holter and Hans Ankwitz-Kleehoven also attribute a picture of the dead of Emperor Maximilian I from 1519 to Master AA . It has been preserved in several repetitions, a version is also in the Joanneum.

Works in Kremsmünster

Two other works from Kremsmünster Abbey are considered to belong together, the attribution to Master AA is assumed by Kurt Holter. An epitaph for the Wels citizen Pankraz Scheibel was created around 1520 and is not signed. Two panels from a life of Mary , the representation in the temple and the death of the Virgin , are dated to the year 1522. Dürer's life of the Virgin was again used as a template for the panel of the Virgin Mary. The treatment of the original is similar to that of the altar. This work is not signed either.

literature

  • Eduard Manhart: On the problem of the monogrammist AA with special consideration of the Großreiflinger altar. Diploma thesis, Graz 1990.
  • Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Volume 1: AA to Dressler, addendum. Tusch, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85063-007-2 .
  • Josef Wastler: Styrian Artist Lexicon. Leykam, Graz 1883.
  • Otto Wutzel (ed.): The art of the Danube school. 1490-1540. Exhibition by the Province of Upper Austria, St. Florian Monastery and Linz Castle Museum, May 14 to October 17, 1965. 3rd improved edition. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1965.

Web links

Commons : Master AA  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Archive for Austrian History, Volume 122, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1959, p. 308. Also: Rudolf Schmidt: Österreichisches Künstlerlexikon: from the beginnings to the present . Vol. 1: A Dressler. Tusch, Vienna 1980. Hans Holter, on the other hand, suspects an Andreas Astl mentioned in a document in Wels in 1485 : Kurt Holter , Gilbert Trathnigg : Wels from primeval times to the present. In: Yearbook of the Wels Museum Association. Volume 10, Wels 1964, p. 86, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  2. ^ A b Erich Egg: Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I. In: Exhibition Maximilian I. Innsbruck . Catalog of the exhibition from June 1 to October 15, 1969. Published by the Tyrolean cultural department. Responsible for the content Erich Egg. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1969. Object no .: 259, p. 66. ( Portrait of the dead Emperor Maximilian I online ).
  3. a b c Holter: Upper Austria . In: The Art of the Danube School . Pp. 152-164, here pp. 157-159.