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Stefan Lochner

Nationality
German
Birth/Death
1410-1451

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Work of Art

St. Jerome in His Study

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Artwork by Stefan Lochner
Work of Art
St. Jerome in His Study

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Stefan Lochner was a late Gothic painter active in Germany. His surviving works include Christian altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts. Few records survive from his life. The sculptural look of the drapery worn by the figures in his paintings and their naturalistic appearance indicate he may have trained in the Netherlands or was influenced by Netherlandish artists such as Jan van Eyck.

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Stefan Lochner (the Dombild Master or Master Stefan; c. 1410 – late 1451) was a German painter working in the late International Gothic period. His paintings combine that era's tendency toward long flowing lines and brilliant colours with the realism, virtuoso surface textures and innovative iconography of the early Northern Renaissance. Based in Cologne, a commercial and artistic hub of northern Europe, Lochner was one of the most important German painters before Albrecht Dürer. Extant works include single-panel oil paintings, devotional polyptychs and illuminated manuscripts, which often feature fanciful and blue-winged angels. Today some thirty-seven individual panels are attributed to him with confidence. Less is known of his life. Art historians associating the Dombild Altarpiece master with the historical Stefan Lochner think he was born in Meersburg in south-west Germany around 1410, and that he spent some of his apprenticeship in the Low Countries. Records further indicate that his career…