Meister des Göttinger Barfüßeraltars

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The Meister des Göttinger Barfüßeraltars (Master of the Göttingen Franciscan Altarpiece) was a

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Little is known of the painter himself, although he is also referred to as the Meister der Hildesheimer Magdalenenlegende for a work attributed to him in Hildesheim, at the Magdalenenkirche.[5] The altarpiece panels are now housed in a variety of different museums. For instance the Noli me tangere is in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.[6] These scenes which depict the legend of Mary Magdalene (Magdalenenlegende) are thought to be his earliest known work.

He appears to be influenced by the work of the Meisters der goldenen Tafel in Lüneburg (c. 1415), because some of the background scenes are similar to Conrad von Soest's Wildunger Altarpiece in Bad Wildungen (c. 1403). His work is considered one of the last examples of the International Gothic period in northern Germany.

References

  1. ^ Staatsgalerie, in Branscheid: Baedeker Allianz-Reiseführer Stuttgart. Baedeker, 2008
  2. ^ R. Behrens. Der Göttinger Barfüßeraltar: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der niedersächsischen Malerei des frühen 15. Jahrhunderts. Bonn, 1939 (Dissertation Göttingen 1937)
  3. ^ B. Hartwied. Neuer Schwung für alte Flügel - Wandlungen des Barfüßer-Altars im Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum Hannover wiedergewonnen, in Das MuseumsMagazin, Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum, 2009, p.24 ff.
  4. ^ M. Schawe. Ikonographische Untersuchungen zum Göttinger Barfüßeraltar von 1424 – Der geschlossene Zustand, Göttingen 1989, (Dissertation Göttingen 1967) p. 67
  5. ^ R. Behrens: Ein Magdalenen-Altar des Göttinger Barfüßer Meisters (1961), p. 159 ff.
  6. ^ Meister des Göttinger Barfüßeraltars - Noli me tangere, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

  • "Master of the Göttinger Barfüsseraltar". Archived from the original on March 6, 2005., In: The Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers, 2000, from Artnet.com, at Internet Archive, March 6, 2005

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