Lothar Lambacher – författare

Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the development of the visual arts throughout Europe and across all genres. Featuring a wide selection of works, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin present the first extensive exhibition of Late Gothic art in the German-speaking regions. Its comparison and contrast of the various genres turns the catalogue into a handbook for the arts at the threshold of the modern era.

Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the development of the visual arts throughout Europe and across all genres. Featuring a wide selection of works, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin present the first extensive exhibition of Late Gothic art in the German-speaking regions. Its comparison and contrast of the various genres turns the catalogue into a handbook for the arts at the threshold of the modern era.

Der Band dokumentiert die Beiträge der vom 21. bis zum 24. April 2010 in der Prager Villa Lanna veranstalteten Tagung, welche auf die Weiterentwicklung der europäischen Zusammenarbeit bei der Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Pilgerzeichen abzielte. Die Tagung besaß drei inhaltliche Schwerpunkte: Zum ersten wurden die zahlreichen Pilgerzeichenfunde der letzten Jahre im südlichen Ostseeraum von Danzig bis zur Küste von Schleswig und ihr historischer Kontext thematisiert. Zum zweiten wurde der Alpen-Donau-Raum in den Blick genommen, aus dem bisher nur wenige Arbeiten vorlagen und zusammenfassende Untersuchungen zur Pilgerzeichenüberlieferung ganz fehlten. Den dritten Fokus bildete die Sammlung von etwa 500 französischen Pilgerzeichen, die im Jahre 1894 vom Prager Kunstgewerbemuseum erworben wurde und die seit 2010 erstmals eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung erfuhr.