Jerg Ratgeb
Jerg (Jörg) Ratgeb | |
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Born | Jerg Ratgeb c.1480 |
Died | 1526 (aged approximately 46) |
Nationality | German |
Known for | Painting |
Notable work | Herrenberg altarpiece (1521) Frescos at Frankfurt Carmelite Monastery (1517) |
Jerg Ratgeb, also Jörg Ratgeb (c. 1480–1526), was a German painter during the Renaissance, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.
Life and works
Ratgeb was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Around the turn of the 15th to 16th century, he appears to have spent time in Italy, where he came in contact with Italian Renaissance art and with the recently developed use of perspective in painting. After returning to Germany, he settled in Heilbronn. In 1510, he painted the altar of Saint Barbara in the church of nearby Schwaigern.
From 1514 to 1517 he was in
Because of his marriage to a
Reception
In the late 19th century, his work was rediscovered by
In the 20th century, several historical novels were written about his life:
- Jörg Ratgeb by Georg Schwarz. Munich, 1937;
- Die Spur des namenlosen Malers (The trace of the nameless painter) by Marianne Bruns. Berlin, 1975;
- Die Spur der Bilder: ein biographischer Roman um den Maler Jörg Ratgeb by Anton Monzer, Bietigheim, 1999.
Jörg Ratgeb – Painter is a 1978 East German drama film directed by Bernhard Stephan. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
Since 1990, Ratgeb's life has been the subject of a play called Jerg Ratgeb, Maler – Ein Künstlerdrama, performed at the open-air theatre of the Theater Lindenhof on the Ammerhof near Tübingen. The play has also been broadcast on TV.
In 2004, the artist Hans Kloss (painter) painted a large four-part altarpiece depicting Ratgeb's life and death. Originally on display at St John's Church, Schwäbisch Gmünd, it has since been acquired by the Würth collection.
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Fresco in the Karmeliterkloster,Frankfurt am Main.
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Copy of the Herrenberger Altarpiece in the abbey church at Herrenberg - here depicted when closed
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Barbara-Altar (1510), St. John's Church, Schwaigern
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The Last Supper (1519), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Bibliography
- Otto Donner von Richter: Jerg Ratgeb, Maler von Schwäbisch Gemünd,seine Wandmalereien im Karmeliterkloster zu Frankfurt und seine Altarwand in der Stiftskirche zu Herrenberg. Frankfurt/Main 1892
- Wilhelm Fraenger: Jörg Ratgeb, ein Maler und Märtyrer aus dem Bauernkrieg. Dresden 1972
- Ute-Nortrud Kaiser: Jörg Ratgeb – Spurensicherung, Ausstellungskatalog. Frankfurt/Main & Pforzheim 1982
- Lisa Farber: Jerg Ratgeb and the Herrenberg Altarpiece, Diss. Princeton 1989
- Sabine Oth: Das Wort in den Bildern von Jerg Ratgeb, Diss. Frankfurt/Main 2005
- Sigrun Müller / Christian Weiss: Der Maler Jerg Ratgeb und der Bauernkrieg, Heidelberg 2023