Hubert van Eyck

Hubert ( Huybrecht ) van Eyck (* 1370, † September 18, 1426 ) was a Flemish painter.

The assumption that it is the brother of Jan van Eyck Hubert van Eyck, can no longer be maintained after latest Forschungserkentnissen. Very little is known about the life of Hubert; sure you just know that he enrolled 1421-1422 in Ghent in the religious " cooperative of Mary with the rays ."

To glory Hubert van Eyck came by the inscription on the frame of the Ghent altar. The inscription, however, is like an X-ray investigation has shown in 1950, was only applied subsequently. It reads:

Art historians have long tried because of this inscription, to separate the Ghent altar to share " Hubert " of the Jans. The cult of Hubert Van Asperen de Boer moved in 1979 with the infrared reflectography to body. Unmistakably shows the signing of the altar only a manuscript, namely the Jan van Eyck. Volker Herzner 1995 could prove in his study on the Ghent Altarpiece, that Hubert died penniless, is received not a single work by him and the relationship with Jan is more than questionable.

Nils Büttner sees the motives for the addition of the inscription in the Ghent local patriotism of the 16th century. For Jan Van Eyck came from Bruges, so it was not Genter, during the same name Hubert was randomly assigned as the Ghent painter. Ghent and Bruges were always been in competition. It was popular among humanist scholars to celebrate the own hometown with a Städtelob. This of course was not that the most famous artworks of the city had been created by a Foreign Affairs. Because Hubert van Eyck's name was handed down in Ghent, he was quickly taken to the brother of Jan van Eyck and the Foreign January prefixed. The concrete occasion was - always Büttners hypothesis - the meeting of the Order of the Golden Fleece in the Ghent St. Bavo Church in 1559, to which the church was decorated. At that time a poem was in the chapel, in the Ghent Altarpiece was attached, the Hubert van Eyck boasts a master of the altar.