Hugo van der Goes. Between Pain and Bliss. Exhibition catalog of Berlin Gemäldegalerie

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Along with Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes is one of the most important and influential Netherlandish artists of the fifteenth century. Like his great predecessors, he also invented new, poignant compositions and figures that were influential for decades. Hugo's surviving oeuvre, however, is small. Today, only about thirteen painted works and two drawings are attributed to his hand-very few, even compared to the twenty or so surviving works of Jan van Eyck and the nearly forty of Rogier van der Weyden. Yet in terms of size, Hugo's most important works far exceed the dimensions common in his day. The central panel of his Portinari Altarpiece is by far the largest Netherlandish panel painting of the century. That the monumental and intensely colorful effect of the Monforte Altarpiece's central panel, today in Berlin, constitutes a clear departure from the tradition of older Netherlandish art, is vividly illustrated by the fact that in the nineteenth century, when it was still in Monforte, Spain, it was considered a work by Peter Paul Rubens, the great master of Baroque painting who was born about a hundred years after Hugo's death. Hugo van der Goes (um 1440–1482) war der wichtigste niederländische Künstler der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Seine innovativen Bilderfindungen zeichnen sich durch monumentale Figuren und realistische Erzählmomente aus. Sie bereiteten den Weg für die Entwicklung der niederländischen Malerei der folgenden Jahrhunderte.Die Werke des in Gent und im Roode Kloster bei Brüssel tätigen Malers wurden schon von den Zeitgenossen bewundert und bis ins 17. Jahrhundert unzählige Male kopiert. Die neue Monografie würdigt Charakter und Bedeutung seines zahlenmäßig überschaubaren Œuvres. Seine großen Altäre treffen auf intimere Tafeln, Zeichnungen und Miniaturen ebenso wie auf Arbeiten aus seinem engsten Umfeld – reich bebildert und kompetent erläutert, entsteht ein umfassender Blick auf das Schaffen eines großartigen Künstlers.

Author(s): Erik Eising (Hg.), Stephan Kemperdick (Hg.)
Publisher: Hirmer
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 304
Tags: Medieval art, Netherlands, Early Netherlandish art, Altar, Triptych

Cover
Contents
Foreword and acknowledgments
Lenders
Hugo van der Goes: The loss and rediscovery of an extraordinary artist
Hugo van der Goes in archival perspective
A painter in the Burgundian Netherlands: Hugo van der Goes and his connections
Hugo van der Goes and the followers of Rogier van der Weyden
Mental illness, the Devotio Moderna, and the Vienna Diptych
Painter-monks and artists in the monastery
Hugo van der Goes’ approach to portraiture
Hugo van der Goes as a draftsman
Hugo van der Goes and his followers
Hugo’s madness
The Portinari Altarpiece
The Trinity Panels
Catalogue