The Isenheim Altar: Suffering and Salvation in the Art of Grunewald
by Gottfried Richter
from Floris Books
The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald's Altarpiece (California Studies in the History of Art Discovery Series)
by Ruth Mellinkoff
from University of California Press
Matthias Grünwald's world-famous Isenheim Altarpiece ranks among the most powerful expressionistic works of the Northern Renaissance. Characterized by great emotional force, exquisite handling of color and brilliantly interwoven subtleties of Christian iconography, the multi-paneled altarpiece has remained the object of intense scholarly interest and the main attraction of the Musée d'Unterlinden in Colmar, France.
Ruth Mellinkoff offers an original analysis of the altarpiece, uncovering the late medieval popular beliefs that underlie its unusual visual content. She places its rich imagery within a tradition of Christian art, and stunningly, discovers Lucifer among the angels observing the Nativity.
Matthias Grunewald (Art & Design)
by Horst Ziermann
from Prestel Publishing
Famous, above all, for his awe-inspiring Isenheimer Altarpiece, Matthias Grunewald was one of the great Renaissance visionaries and has exerted a lasting influence on European painting. This book presents Grunewald's oeuvre from the early paintings and drawings through his major masterpieces, the altarpieces in Frankfurt, Isenheim, Aschaffenburg and Mainz up to his last works, and also includes an up-to-date catalogue of paintings and drawings definitively attributed to the artist.
Matthias Grunewald: The Drawings
by Max Friedlander
from Hatje Cantz
On the occasion of its centennial anniversary, the German Verein fur Kunstwissenschaft has compiled all of Renaissance master Matthias Grunewald's known drawings in this opulent volume, which is filled with exquisitely reproduced color plates, complete with critical commentary. Grunewald's 40 surviving studies are some of the most important discoveries of German Renaissance art. Uncovered by art historian Max J. Friedlander, who posits Grunewald's technique as an antipode to Albrecht Durer's, this publication is the latest example of nearly a century of groundbreaking drawings editions produced by the Verein fur Kunstwissenschaft--the first volume of which, a complete edition of Grunewald's known drawings at the time (1927), has long been out of print. Later editions featured the work of artists such as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Durer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans von Kulmbach, Hans Schaufelein and Lucas Cranach the Elder.
The work of Matthias Grunewald (c. 1475-1528) was nearly forgotten until the twentieth century; only a dozen paintings and these drawings have been found. His masterpiece, the Isenheim Altarpiece (c. 1513-1515), was long believed to have been painted by Durer.
Grunewald (Colour Plate Books)
75 Jahre Grunewald-Bucher: Zeit zu verstehen, Mut zum Leben, Freude am Lesen : ein Almanach
Teufel, Damonen, Besessenheit: Zur Wirklichkeit d. Bosen (Grunewald Reihe)
Das umstrittene Gewissen: Eine theologische Grundlegung (Grunewald Reihe)
Handbuch kirchlicher Altenarbeit (Grunewald Praxis)
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