Schwartauer Altar – Wikipedia
The Schwartauer Altar or Circular brothers altar is a wing altar from the 15th century, which is located in the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck.
The altar was owned by the city of Bad Schwartau from 1926 to 1937, which is why it is called Schwartauer altar in art -historical literature.
The altar consists of a relief middle section of 127 cm high, 176.5 cm wide and 30 cm depth with a border and altar wings made of painted oak width, which is made of a Westphalian sandstone block.
The altar is of art historical importance, since only three other similar altars have been preserved. You are in the Ratzeburger Cathedral, in the Schwerin Cathedral and in Anklam.
The creation goes back to the circular brothers. Since 1379, this maintained a richly equipped chapel in the Katharinenkirche in Lübeck.
The middle part of sandstone is dated before 1408, the altar wings were created around 1430. These come from various unknown artists.
The altar was donated to the chapel in 1430 by the families of Meteler, Wickede, Brömse and Rentelen.
At an unknown time, presumably at the beginning of the 17th century, the altar, which no longer corresponded to the fashion of the time and was therefore handed over to another church or chapel, came to the Georg chapel of the Schwartauer Siechenhaus, where it was first mentioned in 1821.
In 1844 the altar was brought from the Georg chapel not used for services to the official house of the Schwartau office, from where he returned to the chapel in 1901.
In 1926 the Schwartauer altar was initially given to the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck as a loan for ten years. The return did not take place after ten years; The altar passed the property of the St. Annen Museum on April 1, 1937.
Middle part:
The image sequence shows part of the passion of Christ and the resurrection of Christ
- On the left is the Christ wearing the cross.
- In the middle, the hill Golgota is shown with Christ on the cross and angels that catch the blood of Christ.
- At the bottom right, the burial of Christ, the resurrection of Christ is shown.
Altar wing
The representation on the wings shows a lady cycle:
- right -wing wing
- Above left: the (newborn) Jesus with Mary in the temple (representation of the Lord)
- Top right: Jesus as a 12-year-old child in the temple in the district of the scribes ( Lukas 2,48 f. EU )
- Bottom left: Death Mary
- Below right: increase and coronation of Mary (in heaven)
The painted crucifixion relief of the middle section is assigned to a artistically unknown artist in art history and formerly known as the master of the painted crucifixion relief, which is also said to have made the other three similar crucifixion reliefs in Ratzeburg, Schwerin and Anklam. [first] [2]
- Max Steen: Bad Schwartau – from the past and present . Lübeck 1973
- Hans Kieckbusch: The Schwartauer altar In: Yearbook for local history . Eutin 1978, pp. 24-30
- Brigitte Heise, Hildegard Vogeler: The altars of the St. Annen Museum. 2nd edition, Lübeck 2008, ISBN 978-3-937900-05-6, pp. 136–141
- Uwe Albrecht (ed.): Corpus of medieval wooden sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein , Band 1: Hanseatic city of Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum . Jaye, 2005, 33-955-35-15-19-19-19 , 139
- ↑ Pescatore years: The master of the painted crucifixion reliefs. A contribution to the history of Low German plastic in the fifteenth century . Strasbourg 1918
- ↑ Circular brothers altar . In: Museum Association Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg e. V.: Museums Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg (online object search, 1926-312 ) (Called September 2014)
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