5/30/2023 0 Comments Martin Schongauer by Max Lehrs![]() ![]() Undoubtedly however, Schongauer and this delightful print played a crucial role in disseminating the Flemish style of composition through the medium of engraving. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Drer. ![]() (Wein, Gesellschaft fr Vervielfltigende Kunst, 1925), by Max Lehrs. 1445, Colmar 2 February 1491, Breisach), also known as Martin Schn ('Martin beautiful') or Hbsch Martin ('pretty Martin') by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. As Nicholas Stogdon and other, earlier commentators pointed out, this - in Schongauer's oeuvre early - print owes a significant debt to the older Flemish masters, in particular Rogier van der Weyden and in consequence Hans Memling. Martin Schongauer, 1445-1491 : an exhibition of engravings by the master to be held. In his view, Schongauer in this print found a new, harmonious composition for the conventional elements of this crucial scene of Christianity - the ruins of Salomon's temple, the naked Christ Child resting on the Virgin's coat, Joseph standing humbly in the background holding a candle or lantern, the donkey and the oxen with 'faithful, humanised' glance, the adoring shepherds, the annunciating and the jubilant angels - which would become the example for countless depictions of this scene all over Europe. Max Lehrs considered this Nativity one of the Schongauer's greatest achievements as a printmaker, 'and possibly of German art as a whole'. ![]()
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