Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece

The Master of Trebon, Czech Mistr třeboňského Oltare, was the most important representative of Czech school of painting in the second half of the 14th century.

It is named after some dating from around 1380 panels of the Passion story that originally resided in Wittingau as an altar in the Augustinian Canons. Today they can be seen in the National Gallery in Prague. His painterly skills are the new form of light painting, which was achieved by fine glazes. He made ​​no more of detail as the Master of Hohenfurth, but from the context here: the image space and image events are one. The forms do not develop side by side, but penetrate them and to increase visionary experience.

On the three surviving panels of the polyptych scenes from the Passion of Christ are shown: "Christ on the Mount of Olives ", the " Entombment " and " Resurrection". They come from the working day side of the altarpiece, which is evident from the fact that the painter does not use a red and gold colored base has.

The Master of Trebon is an innovator of form and content design in painting, especially as the colorist of the outstanding artists in Central Europe 1350-1400 with him. Simultaneously opens the way to the "soft style ".