Matthias Grnewald

1
Matthias Grünewald
c. 1470/75 - 1528
1490s Wanderjahre associated with Dürer
and Nuremberg 1508-14 Court painter to Archbishop
of Mayence Uriel von Gemmingen
1510 designer of waterworks 1511 owned
building in Aschaffenburg 1514 Archbishop
Albrecht of Brandenburg c. 1525 Quit post at
time of Peasants' War (Lutheran sympathies)
What's in a name? Mathis Gothart Neithart
MGN Grünewald from Sandrart 1675"Mathis der
Maler" (Paul Hindemuth)
Grunewald Online
2
Map Europe in the 16th century
3
Self-Portrait
1512-14Chalk, heightened with white, 206 x 152
mmUniversitätsbibliothek, Erlangen
4
Isenheim Altar
In Colmar, Antonite Commandery, hospital
order 1512-completed 1515 (date on ointment
jar) Center 9ft 9 1/2 in x 10 ft 9 in.
Lindenholz Donors Johan de Orliaco (Jean
d'Orliac) and successor Guido Guersi of
Sicily Chapel originally rebuilt 1470-1500.
Orliaco commissioned sculptural altarpiece from
Hagenau. 1790s dismembered to preserve it.
Read more at Musée dUnterlinden Images of
Colmar from Tandem France 2003
5
(No Transcript)
6
Exterior closed view
Normal state on weekdays
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)
12
He must increase, but I must decrease
13
Cross made of yew, whose bark cures
leprosy Image inspired by St. Bridget's gory
vision
14
(No Transcript)
15
Weeping Woman
1512-14Black chalk on brownish paper, 403 x 297
mmPrivate collection
16
(No Transcript)
17
(No Transcript)
18
Predella
19
(No Transcript)
20
(No Transcript)
21
Second View
The Annunciation Madonna and Child with
Angels The Resurrection.
Open on Sundays and feasts
22
Annunciation
23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
(No Transcript)
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
(No Transcript)
30
(No Transcript)
31
(No Transcript)
32
(No Transcript)
33
(No Transcript)
34
Resurrection
35
(No Transcript)
36
(No Transcript)
37
(No Transcript)
38
Second View
39
Interior view
On saints' days.
40
Nikolaus of Hagenau St Augustine with donor
Johannes de Orliaco
41
(No Transcript)
42
(No Transcript)
43
Meeting of Sts Anthony and Paul
Perhaps a portrait of Guido Guersi, preceptor
1508-1516 Images contain 14 herbs for cure of St
Anthony's Fire. Including white clover,
germander, plaintain, ribwort, poppy
44
(No Transcript)
45
(No Transcript)
46
(No Transcript)
47
(No Transcript)
48
Temptation of St Anthony
"Where were you, good Jesus, where were you?
Why did you not come to cure my wounds?
49
Perhaps a portrait of Guido Guersi, preceptor
1508-1516 Images contain 14 herbs for cure of St
Anthony's Fire.
50
(No Transcript)
51
(No Transcript)
52
Interior view
53
Stuppach Madonna
1517-19Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 186 x 150
cmParish Church, Stuppach
54
Small Crucifixion
The Small Crucifixion, c. 1511/1520oil on panel,
61.3 x 46 cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.) Washington
National GallerySamuel H. Kress
Collection1961.9.19 Read more
55
(No Transcript)
56
(No Transcript)
57
(No Transcript)
58
Crucifixion
1501-02Black chalk on brownish paper, heightened
with white, 531 x 320 mmStaatliche Kunsthalle,
Karlsruhe
59
Carrying the Cross1523-24Oil on wood, 193 x
152,5 cmKunsthalle, Karlsruhe
60
(No Transcript)