Johann von Soest (painter)
Johann von Soest was a painter in the second half of the 15th century, in Münster ( Westphalia ) and probably also worked in Soest.
Johann von Soest was influenced by the Cologne and Soester school. He gave this influence in turn beyond Westphalia after northern Germany, in particular to his agents, the so-called champion of 1489, and to the master of Lippborger passion to Hinrik Funhof, the so-called champions of 1473 and Hermen Rode.
Johann von Soest was identified in the later history of art as the painter of the ' Liesborner altar ' of the monastery Liesborn in Münster. Previously, the painter of this work was not known by name and described under the Notnamen Master of Liesborn.
The jobs created by Johann von Soest high altar of the monastery Liesborn consecrated Abbot Heinrich of Cleves in 1465 along with four other side altars. With the secularization of the monastery altars were sawn into individual paintings around 1807 under the French occupation and sold. Some essential parts came into the existence of the National Gallery in London, other. In the collection of the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster
Gallery
Fragments of Christ's crucifixion in the Westphalian State Museum, Münster: