Master of the Lübeck Bible, active 1489-1510

LC control no.	nr 98037226
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Master of the Lübeck Bible, active 1489-1510 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Master of the Lübeck Bible, fl. 1489-1510 Meister der Lübecker Bibel, active 1489-1510 Meister A der Lübecker Bibel, active 1489-1510
Beginning date	1489
Ending date	1510
Associated place	Lübeck (Germany) Lyon (France)
Special note	Identity with either Bernt Notke or Henning von der Heyde is not proven.
Found in	Dict. of art, 1996: v. 20, p. 719 (Master of the Lübeck Bible; designer of woodcuts; fl. Lübeck, 1489-1494) Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, 1987-1988: Neues vom Meister der Lübecker Bibel, p. 123. Splendours of Flanders, 1993: p. 86 (Master of the Lübeck Bible; itinerant Flemish artist; active 1480s to ca. 1510) Weniger, Matthias. "Meister A der Lübecker Bibel," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, June 24, 2019 (Meister A der Lübecker Bibel; further names: Meester van de Bijbel van Lübeck; Heyde, Henning von der; possible identity: Morros, Felipe; gender: male; woodcutter; occupation: graphic artist; miniature painter; country: Germany, Belgium; named for the illustrations in the Middle Low German Bible published in Lübeck, November 19, 1494; 52 of the 97 woodcuts are attributed to him; also the designer of the illustrations in the Dance of Death published in Lübeck, 1489, and other works published in Lübeck; also active in Lyon as designer of the woodcuts in a 1493 Terence commentary published by Johannes Trechsel, and other works published in Lyon; since 2004, Weniger has published numerous indications that the illustrator might be identified with Felipe Morros (?), from Picardy, who was active 1497-1507 as a painter and illuminator at the Castilian court, but this is not definite) Thieme, Ulrich. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, via Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, June 24, 2019 (Meister A der Lübecker Bibel, Low German woodcutter, end of the 15th century; has been identified with Bernt Notke and tentatively with Henning von der Heyde) Gombar, Thomas J. "Master of the Lübeck Bible," in "Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family. I. Anonymous masters," in Grove art online, via Oxford art online, June 24, 2019 (Master of the Lübeck Bible, active Lübeck, approximately 1489-1494; woodcutter; "He was the principal designer of woodcut illustrations for one of the most extraordinary examples of German incunabula, the Low German Bible printed by Stephan Arndes at Lübeck in 1494, and was responsible for most of the woodcuts in the Pentateuch. The remaining woodcuts are by a related but inferior hand. Only one other work can be confidently attributed to him, a Dance of Death published anonymously at Lübeck in 1489") Gmelin, Hans Georg. "Notke, Bernt," in Grove art online, via Oxford art online, June 24, 2019 (under "Rejected attributions and work in other media": "Woodcuts in the Lübeck Bible (1494) have now been identified as the work of a French artist in Lyon on the basis of a miniature that bears a similar motif")