Master of the Female Half-Lengths

With Master of the Female Half-Lengths (English: Master of the Female Half- Lengths ) is called a likely 1525-1550 active in the Netherlands, the Renaissance painter. The Unknown Masterpiece worked well in the southern Netherlands, perhaps in Antwerp.

Naming

The Notname the Master of the Female Half derives from the many attributed to him, but unsigned paintings with female half-length figures. This show - mostly as individual portraits - the upper body of elegantly dressed female figures with " pleasing " faces, often when reading or playing music. One of the most famous images shows three ladies at the " house concert ".

Style

The large number of portraits and sticking to a concept give the images according to experts, almost " industrial schematism ". By repeatedly repeated composition of the female characters, the master is different from the style of Adriaen Isenbrant or Ambrosius Benson. However, the Master of the Female Half- ascribed religious images of the operation and the style of these two contemporaries are close. One can conclude that the master on one side - as well as Benson - the other hand, for ecclesiastical patrons in traditional perhaps, for secular authority nor more than Benson worked according to his own, almost rigid " recipe for success ". You may be working a larger workshop at the pictures.

Interpretation

The secular work of the Master of the Female Half shows the transformation of the motifs in the Renaissance, which - in contrast to the Middle Ages - out now raises typical events and scenes from the daily life of people from the religious environment and cutout -like portrayal to strengthen the main Christian motif. The profane, that is purely secular portrait is a stand-alone image. The Master of the Female Half is one of its kind thus almost a " genre painter " by taking advantage of the growing interest in this world and creates a similar set of images for the private market.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of a young woman. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie Inv. No 998
  • Three girls playing music. St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
  • Three musical ladies. Vienna / Rohrau, Liechtenstein Museum, Art Gallery of Count Harrach WF 169 online
  • Lady at the clavichord. Poznań, Muzeum Narodowe No. 115
  • Notenschreibpapiere young woman to in 1530. Münster, Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History online
  • Neptune and Thetis (Neptune embracing a nymph ). Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage (loan)
  • Venus and Cupid. Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage
  • The St. Mary Magdalene. Private collection, on display in: Treasure houses in Germany - Art in noble privately owned. Munich, House of Art, November 2004 to February 2005
  • The St. Mary Magdalene, reading. Paris, Louvre, Dpt. of Peintures, INV 2156
  • Landscape with Mary Magdalene. Dijon, Musée des Beaux -Arts
  • Landscape with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie Inv.-Nr. GG 950
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Dublin, National Gallery NGL 552

Works are exhibited in the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

The master also some Marie representations are attributed that are now in museums Spanish.

Some of the masterpieces attributed to Marie representations were lost after 1935 and are being sought by the Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets.

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