Master of Vyššà Brod
As a master of Hohenfurth or Master of the High Further cycle ( Cz Mistr Vyšebrodského cyklu ) a medieval painter of the High Gothic style is referred to in Bohemia in the 14th century.
Work and significance
The unnamed artist belongs stylistically to the Bohemian school of painting. He received his Notnamen after the nine painted in tempera on panels kreidenen foreground with scenes from the life of Christ, which he created in 1350 and which were intended for the monastery church of the Cistercian in Hohenfurth in South Bohemia. The panels are referred to as High Further cycle and were donated by the Bohemian Oberstkämmererers Peter I. von Rosenberg, who is shown on the picture of the Nativity bottom right. Today, the cycle in the St. Agnes Convent of the National Gallery in Prague can be seen. The Master ascribed panel of Glatzer Madonna is now in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie.
The Master of Hohenfurth was one of the main representatives of the generation of painters, the IV was in Prague at the court of Charlemagne, and the first artist north of the Alps, who knew the Italian painting of the early 14th century and auswertete for his own paintings. Using carefully graded colors figures are made without deep space in front of an abstract gold background. They are characterized by a localization in the shallow pictorial space after Italian models of Giotto time. This panel painting was found in the north own, recovered from the medium of tempera painting out language. Elegance and delicacy of the characters and their vivid facial expressions are summarized again. Then the Bohemian painting struck a new path.
Together with Theodoric of Prague overcame the master of Hohenfurth with the acquisition of Italian motifs to the gothic style points. Thus, the Bohemian Innovations, the requirement of the early 15th century the entire German painting to Conrad von Soest and Stephan Lochner were.
Trivia
On February 21, 2011 appeared in the Caribbean island of St. Kitts a stamp series on Christmas 2010. On the 30 c stamp is the painting of Christ's birth by the Master of Hohenfurth shown. The brand has the Michel Catalog No. 1174th