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MASTER OF THE BERLIN PASSION, ISRAEL VAN MECKENEM
THE ELDER
The Passion of Christ
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Group of 10 metalcuts with floral frames and 17 woodcuts with border lines, each with
contemporary hand coloring in gouache and watercolor, circa 1450-70. Each
approximately 90x65 mm; 3
1
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2
x2
1
/
2
inches, with narrow margins outside the borders.Very
good impressions of these extremely scarce, early prints, with strong colors.
The Master of the Berlin Passion, generally accepted to be Israel van Meckenem the Elder,
lived and worked in Bocholt, in what is now northwest Germany. A goldsmith by trade,
his son—Israel van Meckenem—also trained as a goldsmith and ultimately eclipsed his
father as a printmaker.
Most of van Meckenem the Elder’s prints are of a small format and hand colored,
suggesting that they were to be pasted into books as substitutes for miniature paintings.
Schreiber 1-24 and 26-35; Lehrs pp. 63-76; Hollstein pp. 79-113.
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