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| Anton Moller: model of the world society and the Gdańsk |
The major work of the artist, das 1602 gemalte ,Weltgericht‘, zählte neben Memlings ,Jüngstes Gericht‘ zum wertvollsten Kunstbesitz der Stadt Danzig“, schreibt Hans-Georg Siegler in seiner 1991 bei Droste erschienenen Chronik der Stadt Danzig über den Maler Anton Möller. „Es ist eine geistige Neudeutung der Idee des Weltgerichts. Die Scheidung der Gerichteten in Verdammte und Selige wird umgedeutet in den ,Kampf des guten Prinzips mit dem Bösen um die Herrschaft des Menschen‘, der symbolhaft in der Brust des einzelnen ausgetragen wird. Das ,Weltgericht‘ ist als Wandbild des Artushofes in den letzten Märztagen des Jahres 1945 in der Feuersbrunst, die Danzig vernichtete, untergegangen.“
His Creator Anton Moller paid to the first great Baroque painters from eastern Germany. 400 years ago, the master died in Gdansk, where he created his great works. Born around 1563, the son of Duke Albrecht Court barber and surgeon, Anton Moller, in Koenigsberg, in 1578 he took an artistic teaching in Prague at the court of Rudolf II of Habsburg, a painter for the emperor on activity. Almost ten years later, then let the Konigsberg settled in Danzig. His paintings are reminiscent of The Creation of the great Netherlands, but also to Tintoretto, without copies to be pure.
"His first secure Porträtschöpfung "said Siegler," is the portrait of Bishop Maurice Ferber, one by Moller with the year 1590 provided a copy. "This portrait and eight wooden tables with women's costumes from Moller's hand are seen today in the city of Gdansk Museum. "In his woodcuts of women's costumes, the master proves to be an excellent figure painter, who is about the intention of the topographic representation addition, a realistic portrayal of people living on the outskirts of Gdansk, where he had established himself as an urban artist.
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| Catherine's Church |
The graphic work, from the sheet in the museums and Prints and Drawings from Vienna, Berlin, Dresden and Frankfurt am Main have been preserved include, engravings, pen and ink drawings. The images show allegory, motives contemporaries national life, including as one of the most charming of the 14th Formed in May 1587 copper engraving of a peasant fear. The first of its tacked with ink sheet is the 1596 dated, of Venus ', an allegorical and genre-like representation whose bacchanalian-live fuller content of the painter in one, set expressive rhyme' was. "
Today you can in the restored Gdansk Town Hall Anton Moller famous painting "The Tribute Money" from 1601 to admire again. Also in St. Catherine's Church there are paintings by Moller. When the Master on 1 Died February 1611 in Danzig, he left behind a rich legacy that has influenced many artists in the German North East for a long time and coined. os
Source: Prussian General
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