Künstler der Renaissance (German Edition)

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Prime Book Box for Kids. Wolfenbutteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung Book 24 Hardcover: Otto Harrassowitz January 31, Language: Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Customer reviews There are no customer reviews yet. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Germany produced two developments that were to dominate the 16th century all over Europe: One of the most important German humanists was Konrad Celtis — Celtis studied at Cologne and Heidelberg , and later travelled throughout Italy collecting Latin and Greek manuscripts.

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Heavily influenced by Tacitus , he used the Germania to introduce German history and geography. Eventually he devoted his time to poetry, in which he praised Germany in Latin. Another important figure was Johann Reuchlin — who studied in various places in Italy and later taught Greek.

He studied the Hebrew language , aiming to purify Christianity, but encountered resistance from the church. The Renaissance was largely driven by the renewed interest in classical learning, and was also the result of rapid economic development.

German Renaissance

At the beginning of the 16th century, Germany referring to the lands contained within the Holy Roman Empire was one of the most prosperous areas in Europe despite a relatively low level of urbanization compared to Italy or the Netherlands. More importantly, book-printing developed in Germany, and German printers dominated the new book-trade in most other countries until well into the 16th century.

The concept of the Northern Renaissance or German Renaissance is somewhat confused by the continuation of the use of elaborate Gothic ornament until well into the 16th century, even in works that are undoubtedly Renaissance in their treatment of the human figure and other respects.

Classical ornament had little historical resonance in much of Germany, but in other respects Germany was very quick to follow developments, especially in adopting printing with movable type , a German invention that remained almost a German monopoly for some decades, and was first brought to most of Europe , including France and Italy, by Germans. Printmaking by woodcut and engraving thought of as a German invention yet originated in China was already more developed in Germany and the Low Countries than anywhere else, and the Germans took the lead in developing book illustrations, typically of a relatively low artistic standard, but seen all over Europe, with the woodblocks often being lent to printers of editions in other cities or languages.

He rapidly became famous all over Europe for his energetic and balanced woodcuts and engravings, while also painting.

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Though retaining a distinctively German style, his work shows strong Italian influence, and is often taken to represent the start of the German Renaissance in visual art, which for the next forty years replaced the Netherlands and France as the area producing the greatest innovation in Northern European art. Most leading German artists became Protestants, but this deprived them of painting most religious works, previously the mainstay of artists' revenue. Martin Luther had objected to much Catholic imagery, but not to imagery itself, and Lucas Cranach the Elder , a close friend of Luther, had painted a number of "Lutheran altarpieces", mostly showing the Last Supper , some with portraits of the leading Protestant divines as the Twelve Apostles.

This phase of Lutheran art was over before , probably under the more fiercely aniconic influence of Calvinism , and religious works for public display virtually ceased to be produced in Protestant areas.

Presumably largely because of this, the development of German art had virtually ceased by about , but in the preceding decades German artists had been very fertile in developing alternative subjects to replace the gap in their order books. Cranach, apart from portraits, developed a format of thin vertical portraits of provocative nudes, given classical or Biblical titles.

It is an intensely emotional work that continues the German Gothic tradition of unrestrained gesture and expression, using Renaissance compositional principles, but all in that most Gothic of forms, the multi-winged triptych. With Altdorfer in the lead, the school produced the first examples of independent landscape art in the West nearly 1, years after China , in both paintings and prints. Hans Holbein the Elder and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style.

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