부산대학교 도서관

[Gaspard] (b Colmar; fl c. 1430–84). German painter. His work, with that of Hans Hirtz, Jost Haller and the Master of the Stauffenberg Altar, occupies an essential place in mid-15th-century Alsatian art and testifies to the influence of Netherlandish painting in the upper Rhine. He had an exceptionally long career, being active at the same time as Konrad Witz, Master E.S. and the young Martin Schongauer; although Schongauer must have studied Isenmann’s work, there is nothing to prove that he was trained by him. Isenmann worked in his native city, Colmar, but only a few works survive of an undoubtedly prolific output. Isenmann’s only authenticated surviving work is the group of five panels from an altarpiece (Colmar, Mus. Unterlinden). The date of 1465 on one of the panels and their provenance from St Martin, Colmar, have identified them with the altarpiece commissioned from Isenmann in 1462 by the canons of St Martin, the contract for which survives (Colmar, Archv Mun. SDLS, 5). An important example of late Alsatian Gothic, the altarpiece dominated the choir of the largest church of Haute-Alsace and is one of a series of great painted and sculpted altarpieces that developed in the subsequent 50 years. It was partly destroyed by accident in ...