Background
Stephan Lochner was born probably at the beginning of the fifteenth century about 1400 perhaps in Meersburg on Lake Constance, Germany.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Stephan Lochner
Edit ProfileCareer
Lochner's first important altarpiece, the life-sized Madonna with Violets (ca. 1435), is an elegant, blissfully sweet image of the Mother of God.
It is still in the Cathedral of Cologne, where it was placed about 1440.
Identification of his paintings was made possible through a notice in Albrecht Dürer's diary to the effect that while a Cologne on his way to the Netherlands he inspected the altarpiece in the cathedral painted by "Master Stephan. "
Lochner is generally regarded as the chief master of the school of Cologne.
His compositions are always simple, sometimes monumental, and often endearing in their introduction of charming and tender detail.
The most important of his works is the undated altarpiece in Cologne cathedral, an Adoration of the Magi treated as an All Saints festival.
Other works include the Virgin of the Rose Trellis in Cologne and the Presentation in the Temple (1447) in the museum in Darmstadt.
Connections
A document states that he married in 1442.
