SCHONGAUER, MARTIN

märˈtēn shōnˈgou-ər, 1430–91, German engraver and painter, son of a goldsmith of Colmar, Alsace. Schongauer's only certain painting is Madonna of the Rose Arbor (1473; Church of St. Martin, Colmar). The strong figures and faces are treated with the almost metallic sharpness and linearity that later characterized his engravings. There also exist fragments of a mural in the Church of St. Stephen, Breisach, where he lived (1488–91). His work shows Flemish influences, particularly of Roger van der Weyden and Dierick Bouts. Schongauer is best known for his remarkable engravings of religious subjects. He produced 115 engravings signed with his monogram, M+S. Executed with exceptional virtuosity, they were of great importance for the development of German art and were particularly admired by Dürer. Outstanding examples of Schongauer's engraving are The Wise and Foolish Virgins, The Passion, Bearing the Cross, Death of the Virgin, Adoration of the Magi, Christ Enthroned, and Temptation of St. Anthony. Schongauer was one of the earliest engravers to use copper for reproduction and contributed much to the development of the art.

See his complete engravings, ed. by A. Shestack (1970).

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books on: Schongauer Martin  - 87 results

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Germany, France, Russia, & Islam
Book by Heinrich Von Treitschke; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1915
Subjects: Alsace-Lorraine Question, Eastern Question (Balkan), Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Germany--Politics And Government, Gustaf--Ii Adolf--King Of Sweden--1594-1632, Luther, Martin--1483-1546
...the poetic glories of Reinmar of Hagenau. Those marvels of Gothic architecture arose in Thann and Strassburg, and Martin Schongauer painted his simple- minded pictures for the good town of Colmar. Above all, the jest and the mocking play of wit...
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The Age of Luther: The Spirit of Renaissance-Humanism and the Reformation
Book by Ida Walz Blayney; Vantage Press, 1957
Subjects: Humanism, Luther, Martin--1483-1546, Reformation, Renaissance
...whom a love of gentle and restrained beauty is native, produced such painters as Konrad Witz, Stefan Lochner, Martin Schongauer, Hans Baldung Grien. But the greatest among them was Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1491-1543. Hol
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Luther, His Life and Work
Book by Gerhard Ritter, John Riches; Harper & Row, 1963
Subjects: Luther, Martin--1483-1546
...maintaining their naivety and force of expression in the same way as the German painters of that time: Durer and Grunewald, Schongauer and the Cranachs, and so many others. Never again has such a perfect fusion of German and Christian sensitivity been achieved...
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The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Book by David Rundle; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Renaissance--Encyclopedias
...also a composer of organ music. Schongauer, Martin c. 1450-1491 German painter...sought him out and, though Schongauer died before they could meet, worked in his studio in Colmar. Schongauer was the son of the goldsmith...
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Index to Reproductions of European Paintings: A Guide to Pictures in More Than Three Hundred Books
Book by Isabel Stevenson Monro, Kate M. Monro; H. W. Wilson, 1956
Subjects: Painting--Indexes
...Schomberg Scht n, Martin. See Schongauer, Martin Sch nborn, Canon Pleydenwurff, H. Canon Sch nborn SCHONGAUER, Martin, 1430-1491 Crucifixion Lubke...See Madonna in a rose hedge SCHONGAUER, Martin, Follower of Madonna and Child...
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Vetoes and Compatibilities
Journal article by Carlo Ginsburg; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history
...Getty Museums collection) to Martin Schongauer, dating it to around 1473...Direr this study of peonies by Martin Schongauer marks the birth of scientific...A Coloured Flower Study by Martin Schongauer and the Development of the Depiction...
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Soft Touch: On the Renaissance Staging and Meaning of the "Noli Me Tangere" Icon
Journal article by Cynthia Lewis; Comparative Drama, 2002
Subjects: Arts, Renaissance--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dramatic criticism, Touch--Psychological aspects, Touch--Religious aspects
...beautiful engraving (late-fifteenth-century) by Martin Schongauer (fig. 5). Schongauers Christ is not made out as...Ibid., 1:409. (15) Ibid., 1:409. (16) Martin Stevens and A. C. Cawley, eds., The Towneley Plays...
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Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: the Cloth, the Artist, and Sources in Sixteenth-century New Spain
Journal article by Jeanette Favrot Peterson; The Americas, Vol. 61, 2005
Subjects: Art criticism, Mary (Virgin Mary), Murals, Painting, Religious icons, Visual artists
...output of Albrecht Durer and his fellow printmakers, Martin Schongauer and Lucas Cranach, as well as mannerist graphics from...painted by an Indian."100 Two decades later, Viceroy Martin Enriquez traced the "the image that is now in the church...
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God in the Details: Bosch and Judgment(S)
Journal article by Larry Silver; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Bosch, Hieronymus (1450-1516), God, Morality, Visual artists
...behind the main figures, and, beside Adam, a "dragon tree," also taken from German graphic sources (including Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Durer as well as woodcuts of Paradise in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle) to signify the (other) forbidden...
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Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at la Brigue
Journal article; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 34, 2009
...Passion cycle, first of all some printed sources (Israhel van Meckenems Grosse Passion late 1470s, derived from Martin Schongauer, and one anonymous series) - but many (possible) unprinted prototypes are omitted here (there exist more than...
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Drawings of the German Renaissance
Magazine article by Judith Bell; World and I, Vol. 15, April 2000
Subjects: Art, Renaissance--Germany, Durer, Albrecht--Exhibitions, Renaissance art--Germany, Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art--Exhibitions
...persistent hold. From Schongauer to Holbein: Master...century, artists such as Martin Schongauer (1450--1491) and...friend and follower of Martin Luther. His later work...Altogether, From Schongauer to Holbein traces in...
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Incredible Lines of Credit
Magazine article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, December 6, 1999
Subjects: Drawing--Exhibitions, Durer, Albrecht--Exhibitions, Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art--Exhibitions
...National Gallery of Art. "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings...includes works by artists such as Martin Schongauer, Hans Holbein the Elder and...Gothic German artists -- was Schongauer (circa 1450-91). In fact...
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Durer Decoded
Magazine article by Tara Cady Sartorius; Arts & Activities, Vol. 134, November 2003
Subjects: Durer, Albrecht, Engraving--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...anonymous "House-book Master" (c. 1470-1500) and Martin Schongauer (c. 1450-1491). Some elements from Madonna with...background) seem to have been adapted from a work by Schongauer titled The Virgin on a Grassy Bench. Adapting images...
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Classroom Use of the Art Print
Magazine article by Guy Hubbard; Arts & Activities, Vol. 137, April 2005
Subjects: Art teachers--Works, Durer, Albrecht--Works, Painting (Art)--Study and teaching, Painting--Study and teaching, Self portraits--Study and teaching, Self-portraits--Study and teaching
...together with the many works of art in them. In 1512 when Martin Luther challenged the Roman Catholic Church to reform...time. One was the traditional German Gothic style of Martin Schongauer and Matthias Grunewald and the other, newer, style...
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Sofonisba Anguissola
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 261, July 31, 1995
Subjects: Anguisciola, Sofonisba--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Renaissance--Exhibitions, Renaissance painting--Exhibitions, Women painters--Criticism and interpretation
...which one can perceive Durer and Rembrandt appropriating to their own ends features from the prints of van Leyden or Martin Schongauer. Engravings were repositories of transmissible visual resolutions: An ornamental building in a print of Durers...
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Concepts Drawn from World in Transition: Holbein, Schongauer Illustrate a New Style
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, October 30, 1999
Subjects: Durer, Albrecht
...transition: Holbein, Schongauer illustrate a new style...your art. In 1517, Martin Luther will forever...as the exhibit "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master...great artists such as Martin Schongauer, Hans Holbein the Elder...
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Out & About
Newspaper article by Frappa Stout; The Washington Times, October 28, 1999
...Renaissance artists from Germany and Switzerland - Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Durer, Mathis Grunewald, Lucas Cranach...Huber and Hans Holbein the Younger - make up "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin...
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Ride on into the Wild West Show; Go: Art
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 22, 2005
...and Child Crowned by Angels in a Window Embrasure by Martin Schongauer was purchased for pounds 900,000. The collection...virtue warning the spectator of the perils of love. Schongauer uses ideas found in early paintings from the Netherlands...
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`Golden' Trove from China Shines Brilliantly
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, September 11, 1999
...continues at the National Gallery with the exhibit "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings From Berlin and Basel...Swiss Renaissance masters, including Albrecht Durer, Martin Schongauer and Mathias Grunewald. From Italy, the National...
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Culture: Uncovering Some Very Serious Collectors; Terry Grimley Enjoys a Peep through the Keyhole at Some of Birmingham's Private Art Collections
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 29, 2008
...it is on longterm loan here. And there are prints by Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Durer, dating from around 1470 and 1505...artists - a tiny mountain landscape by the Flemish artist Martin Ryckaert and a Dutch canal scene by Isaak Isaacsz...
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encyclopedia articles on: Schongauer Martin  - 5 results

 
 
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Schongauer, Martin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SCHONGAUER, MARTIN mar ten shon gou- r, 1430 91, German engraver and painter, son of...influences, particularly of Roger van der Weyden and Dierick Bouts. Schongauer is best known for his remarkable engravings of religious subjects...
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Gothic Architecture and Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...preeminence over all other forms of painting. In the 15th cent. individual painters, such as Stephan Lochner , Martin Schongauer , and Mathias Grunewald in Germany, mark the culmination of Gothic art. Others, such as Jean Fouquet in France...
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Bartholdi, FrÉdÉric Auguste
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Succoring Strasbourg, presented by France to Switzerland and now at Basel. His monuments and statues include those of Martin Schongauer at Colmar, Vercingetorix at Clermont-Ferrand, and Lafayette and Washington at Paris. Union Square, New York...
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German Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lochner are among those that reflect Flemish influence, particularly of the van Eycks and of Rogier van der Weyden. Martin Schongauer, painting at the same time, developed a more individual style, characterized by delicate and curving lines. Hans...
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Colmar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...its medieval architecture. St. Martins Church (13th and 15th cent.) contains the Madonna of the Rose Arbor by Martin Schongauer, who lived in Colmar all his life. The Unterlinden Museum, in a convent dating from the 13th 14th cent., is...


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