The Fall of Man
ca. 1520/30 | I. P. Meister
Art historians have assigned the geographically imprecise term “Danube School” to a number of highly individual artists active in southern Germany, Austria and Bohemia, whose works exhibit a completely new sensitivity to nature. Late-Gothic elements blend with a radically new depiction of bodies and space. For the first time the landscape becomes an integral part of the composition or is even made a subject of its own.
Art historians have assigned the geographically imprecise term “Danube School” to a number of highly individual artists active in southern Germany, Austria and Bohemia, whose works exhibit a completely new sensitivity to nature. Late-Gothic elements blend with a radically new depiction of bodies and space. For the first time the landscape becomes an integral part of the composition or is even made a subject of its own.
Artist:
I. P. Meister (1. Drittel16. Jahrhundert)
Time:
ca. 1520/30
Object Name
Relief; wood carving
Culture
Passau
Material/technology:
Pear wood
Dimensions:
16,5 cm × 13,5 cm × 1,4 cm
Inscribed
"von Engelharden Ettenharder Ewer Fr. Dht. Hof Canczley Verwandten 1591" (RS)
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
Invs.
Kunstkammer, 3984