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Master of Grosslobming
( fl c. 1380–1420). Sculptor, active principally in Austria. He derives his name from five of the figures from the choir of the parish church of Grosslobming (Styria), which may be from a cycle commissioned by Ernst von Lobming c. 1400–03 in connection with his tomb (except for the Virgin Annunciate (Frankfurt am Main, Liebieghaus), all Vienna, Belvedere). Since Kris, these have been considered among the main representatives of the Schöne Stil (‘Beautiful style’). The Grosslobming figures appear, however, to be the works of two artists, whose parts cannot be divided exactly: one carved figures of St George, St Lambertus (the titular saint of the church) and the Virgin Annunciate; the other made the figures of St John and the Angel Annunciate. Both sculptors are indebted to Western prototypes, but only the sculptor of the St George appears actually to have been trained in the Netherlands. His work is technically of very high quality, and he vests his figures with a certain ‘psychological’ insight.
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