12 Salomonischer Thron, originale Malereifragmente der Löwenge-
staltung und darunter befindliche Vorzeichnung in Schwarz.
13 Salomonischer Thron, abgeplatzte originale Gesichtskonturen,
die bei der Übermalung abgedeckt wurden. Nicht abgedeckt waren
die Augenwinkel, die gleichfalls Malereiverluste zeigen.
Anmerkungen
1 Laborbericht vom 27.4.1989 im Institut für Denkmalpflege, Hanno-
ver.
2 Vgl. H. P. Schramm / B. Hering: Historische Malmaterialien und
Möglichkeiten ihrer Identifizierung. Dresden 1974, S. 18-21 (Hoch-
schule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Abt. Restaurierung. Lehrge-
biet Naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen); Wulf: Große Farbwaren-
kunde. Köln-Braunsfeld 1974.
3 A. J. Dezallier dArgenzville: Die Teutschen und Schweizer Maler.
Leipzig 1768, S. 4f.
Abbildungsnachweis
1, 2 Hans-Peter Autenrieth; 3-22 Gerhard Drescher.
Summary
The paintings in the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Lübeck were
carried out on an intonaco surface on the brick wall, of a size
large enough to accommodate the subject-matter. The medal-
lions of the patrons were pre-scored using compasses for
circles and arches, and the intonaco sketch was begun with
black interior drawing and contours.
The interior drawings and the contours may have been per-
formed a fresco. For the final version itself, lime technique
was probably used, suggesting that it was done a secco.
Some remnants of paintings, e. g. on the Dove of the Trinity
(East wall, southern aisle) also indicate this. However, carbon-
ization of the intonaco was already too far advanced for fresco
buono to be possible. On the North wall, the paintings have
been corrupted by more recent, colourless and varnish-like
layers and overpainting, and the subsequent stripping of parts
of these layers. The subjects must have been painted from
scaffolding storey to scaffolding storey. After the scaffolding
was removed from the wall surface, the scaffolding holes were
filled in and matched up to the painting. Whether further paint-
ings, such as some of the patrons’ medallions with a different
script (Romanic-Gothic), or the artist’s coat of arms in the
vicinity of St John’s eagle, were added after completion of
the painting, is questionable. The artist’s coat of arms is the
one granted to Albrecht Dürer by Maximilian I.
It is no longer possible to ascertain the state of preservation
after exposure in 1894. The state of the lions, for example,
14 Salomonischer Thron, durch Malskat ergänzter Engelskopf.
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