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1 Organisers of the exhibition represented by represented by Georg Graf von Zech-Burkersroda, the Mayor Bernward Küper Dean of the Chapter Principal sponsors of the Saxony-Anhalt State exhibition 2011 Additional support SEKTKELLEREI Partners and supporters In cooperation with Musée du Louvre Paris; Musée des Monuments français Paris; Musée National du Moyen Âge Paris; Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg; Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz; Hochstift Meißen; Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt; Evangelisches Kirchspiel Naumburg; Domkantorei Naumburg; NAUMBURG KOLLEG; LISA Landesinstitut für Lehrerfortbildung, Lehrerweiterbildung und Unterrichtsforschung; Theater Naumburg Under the generous auspices of the Chancellor Enjoy a visit to “Der verschwundene Dom” (The vanished cathedral), of the Federal republic of Germany, a special exhi bition by Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz on Dr. Angela Merkel the occasion of the Mainz Cathedral’s 1000-year anniversary from 1st April to 31st October 2011 “From Naumburg to Meissen”, a special exhibition by the Hochstift Meissen from 29th June to 2nd November 2011 in Meissen Cathedral Contact Exhibition office Public Relations fon +49 (0) 3445 23 01 123 fon +49 (0) 3445 23 01 122 [email protected] [email protected] THE NAUMBURG M AS T E R – SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT IN THE EUROPE OF CATHEDRALS The “Schlösschen” Naumburg, Chapel of St. Giles on the marketplace in a canon‘s house in front of the Church of St. Wenceslas Naumburg City Museum “Hohe Lilie” on the marketplace Entitled “The Naumburg Master – Sculptor and Architect in the Eu- An exhibition area of 2500m² will be rope of Cathedrals”, the Saxony- used, including the “Schlösschen“ Anhalt State Exhibition will be pre- on the market place, the Cathedral sented in Naumburg from 29th June of St. Peter and St. Paul, the Church to 2nd November 2011. It is organ- of St. Mary near the Cathedral, and ized by the city of Naumburg in co- the city museum “Hohe Lilie”. The operation with the United Chapters St. John’s Chapel in the Cathedral Foundations of the Cathedrals of cemetery as well as the St. Giles’ Merseburg and Naumburg and the Chapel await the visitor. In addition collegiate Chapter of Zeitz (Verein- tistic position in the context of mid to the exhibition space a highlight igte Domstifter zu Merseburg und 13th century Europe. Outstanding shall be the redesigned Cathedral Naumburg und des Kollegiatstifts works of art - including sculpture, garden including the children’s me- Zeitz). treasury objects in gold and silver, dieval stone masons’ lodge and the In close cooperation with a large stained glass and illustrated books Naumburg, apex of “Garden of the Naumburg Master” – number of museums, institutions from France, Germany, Poland, the St. John‘s Chapel a recreation of a medieval garden and specialists from Germany and United Kingdom, Austria and the in the cathedral cemetery where the natural plant world which abroad, this international exhibition USA – provide a unique insight and inspired the sculptor for the capitals is dedicated to the work of the so understanding of cultural and artis- of the rood screen in the Cathedral called Naumburg Master and his ar- tic exchange in medieval Europe. can be admired. 2 3 NAUMBURG CATHEDRAL The towers of the cathedral from the south west Naumburg Cathedral crypt under the east choir The Naumburg Cathedral of St. P eter peror Otto the Great in 968. With and St. Paul ranks as one of the most the exception of a few remaining important sacred cultural monu- remnants of several walls, little is left ments from the time of the European of the 11th century cathedral. High Middle Ages. Together with Sources indicate comprehensive the cloisters, the chapel of the Three building work on the cloisters and Kings, the Church of St. Mary and the cathedral church from 1211-1212 Naumburg Cathedral the surrounding canons’ houses, the at which time the decision was made nave looking towards the west impressive building with its four for an ambitious rebuilding of the with a view of the west rood screen and west choir towers creates a magnificent archi- cathedral. By the time of the death of tectural ensemble. Bishop Engelhard II in 1242, the The history of Naumburg Cathedral crypt, the east choir, the transept, begins in 1028 with the transfer of nave and the ground floor of the two the Bishop’s seat to Naumburg from west towers had been completed. Zeitz, which was founded by Em- 4 5 B I S H O P D IE T R I C H II A N D T H E C O N S T RUC T IO N O F T H E W E S T C H O I R Statue of Count Syzzo The decisions made by Bishop Diet- rich II (1243–1272) had a major i nfluence on the history of Naum- burg Cathedral. Being a member of the House of Wettin as well as being a long term member of the Naum- burg Cathedral chapter, Dietrich main- tained a special and intermediary p osition in the tense network woven between the claims to power of the diocese and the attempts to contain and restrict diocesan power on the part of Margrave Henry the Illustri- ous of Meissen (1221–1288). Sieg- fried II, Archbishop of Mainz, or- dained Dietrich II as bishop. This direct contact was a major contrib- uting factor leading to the summons to Naumburg of the artist who had created the rood screen in the Cathe- dral of Mainz. The cooperative e fforts of Bishop Dietrich II, various representatives of the cathedral chapter, and the master craftsman from Mainz resulted in the agree- ment to complete the west choir of the cathedral and by so doing to fun- damentally and symbolically mani- fest the secular and ecclesiastic legal- ity of Naumburg as Bishop’s Seat. For this reason, it was the further agreed upon to commission a group of twelve statues: one each of twelve Charter from 1249: appeal various benefactors who had en- for the completion of the cathedral dowed and gifted the Naumburg Naumburg, Domstiftsarchiv Cathedral. These twelve statues Statues of Ekkehard II, form the artistic basis of the west Margrave of Lusatia and Meissen choir itself, all of which is embedded and his consort Uta in a highly complex and comprehen- sive theological concept. 6 7 T H E W E S T C H O I R – A UNIQUE ENSEMBLE View of the west choir Front view of the west rood screen Christ before Pilate, relief on the west rood screen Detail of St. John Due to their excellent artistic quality, choir – are all of consumate artistic from the Calvary scene on the architecture, sculpture, stained mastery. Faces, gestures and move- the west rood screen glass and fresco of the west choir ments are reproduced in an unusual- ly lifelike and expressive manner. (completed approximately 1250) Detail of the Virgin Mary create a synthesis which is complete- The extraordinary ability of the art- from the Calvary scene on ly unified in both its iconographical ist to give to all of his human figures the west rood screen and structural engineering aspects. a realistic expression of emotional, This extraordinary artistic, architec- spiritual, and psychological condi- tural, and theological harmony can tions, imbues the figures with an in- figures and depictions are all in an unified in order to express to believ- only have been achieved by giving a ner life and soul. The uniquely real- immediate compositional relation- ers an idea of salvation can still be general directorship of the worksite istic representations of plants in the ship and interaction with the fresco examined today by virtue of the en- to one responsible sculptor/archi- capitals of the rood screen and those of the Supreme Judge in the quatre- semble of sculpture, stained glass tect – the “Naumburg Master” who of humans and animals on the gar- foil. In harmony with the depictions and painting in the west choir. Based came from Mainz. goyles of the west choir are exam- of the Naumburg Bishops and the upon the medieval ideal of creating The composition of the Crucifixion ples of the astonishing naturalism of saints triumphal over vice in the an organic art work, the exhibition group and the related reliefs detail- the Naumburg Master. Firmly an- stained glass windows, the entire ar- offers a survey of stylistic and pro- ing the Passion on the west rood chored within an architectural tistic and architectonic complex of grammatic relationships within the screen, the design of the twelve ben- framework, the statues of the bene- the west choir manifests the central various genres of medieval art with efactor figures in the west choir, as factors in the west choir are spatially statement of faith in the theology of comparative presentations of manu- well as the deacon’s statue in the related to the Crucifixion group and the High Middle Ages. scripts, gold and silver objets d’art, form of a pult-bearer, and the bish- the reliefs depicting the Passion on How medieval works of art from and stained glass. op’s monument tomb in the east the west rood screen. In turn, these various genres were compositionally 8 9 LIFE AND WORK OF THE NAUMBURG MASTER Atlas, supporting sculpture on the west front of Noyon Cathedral Procession of the damned on Judgment Day on the former west rood screen of Mainz Cathedral Mainz, Dom-und Diözesanmuseum The Founders’ bay and the choir polygon in Meissen Cathedral As there are no written sources as to Meissen – it presents the foundation the life of the Naumburg Master, re- of the “Naumburg” workshop and search into the history and work of its forerunners in Reims, Noyon, Division of the coat the anonymous sculptor/architect Coucy and Metz.