ICO Iconographisk Post (Jan 2016)
Två konstnärers sätt att i ord och bild presentera sig själva i sengotikens Norden
Abstract
Title in English: The Self-representation in Image and Word of two Late Gothic Artists in Scandinavia. – This article describes the way in which two of Sweden’s most prominent artists (around 1500) manifested themselves in both image and word. Albertus Pictor (Albert the Painter) moved from Germany to Sweden in 1465 and lived and worked there for the rest of his life. In 1473 marriage to the widow of a painter enabled him to settle in Stockholm and he lived in the Swedish capital until his death in 1509. We know that he left his signature in nine churches in the provinces around Stockholm and in some of them his signature is still preserved. In the church of Lid his signature is written above his self-portrait. He left another self-portrait in Härkeberga church and close to his kneeling figure here a young man stands by a painted altar, probably his apprentice. – Adam van Düren came to Sweden together with other German stonemasons in 1487 to complete Linköping Cathedral. From 1500 up to 1532 he worked in Denmark, mainly in the province of Scania. He has left two self-portraits in Lund Cathedral. Under a vault in the north transept his head is looking towards the head of his wife. And on the base of a column in the nave he has portrayed himself as a donkey collapsing under too heavy a burden. Here the inscription says: Anyone who takes on more than he can carry must be a donkey – 1527.
