Jaume Huguet

Jaume Huguet (* 1414 in Valls, † 1492 in Barcelona) was a Catalan painter of the Gothic. He was the most important representative of the Catalan school of painting, which he took over leadership of Bernat Martorell in the late 15th century.

After the death of his father, Jaume Huguet moved to Tarragona to his uncle Pere Huguet, a painter. With him, his teacher, he moved to Barcelona in 1434, where he came in contact with the new styles of his time: Flemish, Spanish and Italian influences, particularly the acting in Barcelona Bernat Martorell, whose tempera technique he developed. In Barcelona, ​​he painted several altarpieces and frescoes, which are characterized by elaborate relief- gold background and individually subscribed people.

Huguet is from 1448 in Barcelona detectable ( order for a Jacob altar in Arceba ) and most recently he has demonstrated in 1486 with a factory. Previously, he was active in Tarragona and Zaragoza in Aragon. He influenced the painting in Spain over Catalonia addition, in Aragon. Huguet had a large workshop in which his brother Antonio and members of the family of painters potted worked. However, his many jobs had also impact on the quality in his late work. That and the exaggerated use of the well corresponding to the taste of his time gold ground led by his successors ( members of the potted family) to the demise of the Catalan school of painting.

An excellent example of the quality of his painting is the Dreikönigsaltar Condestable Don Pedro de Portugal from 1464/1465 ( Chapel of the Palacio Real Mayor of Barcelona). In the center is the Adoration of the Magi - clearly influenced by Rogier van der Weyden. Of interest is the fascinating naturalistic style of the royal gifts as well as the background. Stable and landscape are also designed to detail, while the sky is resumed from the traditional gold background.

A selection of his most important works is the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. Besides the aforementioned works, among others:

  • Saint George rescues the princess (1459-1460), central panel of the Georg altar in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña. Two other tables were in the Empress Friedrich Museum in Berlin and were lost ( Donors with Saint John the Baptist, founder of the St. Louis of Toulouse)
  • Flagellation of Christ 1455 for the Barcelona Cathedral, now in the Louvre
  • Lamentation of Christ, c.1460, Louvre
  • Antonius altar (1454-1458), he was in the Church of San Antonio in Barcelona in 1909 and fell victim to a fire.
  • Altar of the monastery of Ripoll, 1455
  • Vincent altar (late 1450s ) for the Church Sarria in Barcelona, ​​in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña.
  • Abdon and Sennen of the Holy Altar, 1458-1460, in the church of Santa María in Tarrasa (originally for S. Pedro).
  • Augustine altar (completed in 1486 ), for the convent of San Agustin El Viejo in Barcelona, ​​now the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña.
  • Bernhardinsaltar ( 1468 ), Museum of the Cathedral of Barcelona, ​​painted for the glaziers ' guild
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