5/22/2023 0 Comments Martin Schongauer by Max LehrsUndoubtedly however, Schongauer and this delightful print played a crucial role in disseminating the Flemish style of composition through the medium of engraving. referring to Max Lehrs, Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des Deutschen. 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. In contrast, works by fifteenth-century artists like Martin Schongauer (ca. 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'. The artwork St Sebastian (Large) (Bartsch 59 Lehrs, Schmitt, Stogdon (Hollstein) 65) by artist Martin Schongauer auctioned in March 2020 at Sothebys.
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