Der Blaubeurer Hochaltar The altar Blue Beurer, created 1493-1494, is located in the church choir from a former Benedictine monastery of Beuren blue. Has a height of about twelve feet and comes from the hands of the sculptor Michel Erhart Ulmer and his son Gregor Erhart, who moved to Augsburg in 1494, where he probably died in 1540, previously worked in his fathers workshop Ulmer. Recently, the main work of plastic is attributed to the altar his father Michel. Blue Beurer altar is an altar change with two pairs of jointed wings and predella. The outer wing, the outer sides of the inner wing and the Predellenflügel are painted. Only when you open the plastic wings all equipment comes into its own. In the predella Christ and the apostles are represented in the figures carved half-length, while in the sanctuary vollplastisch center is the Madonna with the Child in her arms on the crescent moon. Right next to it is John the Baptist and Founder Benedict, left St. John the Evangelist and St. Scholastica, founder of the womens branch of the Benedictine Order. The altar on the right shows the relief of the Nativity, left, Adoration of the Magi is shown. In the middle part of the conversation remains Pencil Christ as the Man of Sorrows, beside him on each side an angel with instruments of the Passion. In conversation Engen side are Mary and John and put them under three busts of saints. The two separate images on the open wings inside the left show the former abbot and bishop Heinrich Fabri and right bust of the Counts of Württemberg Eberhard im Bart. Blue altar Beurer combines sculpture, relief painting, and with each other, indicating that the characteristic of the German Schnitzaltars to 1500.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:50:46 +0000
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