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PiotrBirecki
Atthesametime,5paintings(“fünfkonterfeinTafelbilder”)ordered
in1522-1525inAlbrechtDurer’sworkshopprovethatAlbrechtvalued
hisrelationshipwiththeartistandtheregionofNuremberginwhich
helived.Nurembergitselfwouldcreatenewpaintersforthecourt
inKönigsberginthefuture.8Königsberg’sartisticcirclewouldrelyfor
decadesonimportedpaintingscreatedinWittenbergandNuremberg
orthepainterswhostudiedthere.Thepainterswouldeventuallyarrive
inPrussiaand,onthespot,createreligiouspaintings,portraits,andepi-
taphimages.ItisnosurprisethatAlbrechtDürer’sFourBooksonHuman
ProportionandLittlePassioneventuallylandedinthepersonalcollection
oftheduke(Kammerbibliothek).TheologicaltextsdominatedinAlbre-
cht’slibrary,alongwithMartinLuther’sworks,whichAlbrechtcollected.
Inthisset(around1600volumes),atwo-tomeBibletranslatedbyMartin
Lutherwasstored.ThisparticularBiblealsoincludesa1534woodblock
printofDuke’sportraitmadebyLucasCranachd.J.Asmentionedbe-
fore,Cranach’sworkshopwouldsendmanymoreportraitstotheduke;
however,theworkshopitselfwouldsometimesreceivesomeworksfrom
Königsbergasbaselineforfuturework.Thisisexemplifiedbythe1528
portrait(nowinthecollectionoftheHerzogAntonUlrichMuseum).9
BothNurembergandWittenbergwereunabletohelpincreating
atombstonehonoringAlbrechtHohenzollern,whowassupposedtochal-
lengethecommemorationofevangelicalrulersofthesixteencenturywith
hisownartisticandiconographicrank.Nurembergonlymanagedtocreate
bas-relieftombstonesmadeofiron.ThisworkwasmostlydoneintheVis-
cherfamily’sworkshop.ThesewerecreatedfortheHohenzollerns,butnot
goodenoughtohonorAlbrechtandhisfamily.10Artistsrepresentingthe
Italianschoolofartwhocouldmeettheexpectationswerenothired.The
appropriateartistswereselectedfromtheProtestantculturalmilieu.They
werefoundinthenortherncountries.Orderingtombstonesandepitaphs
fromCornelisFlorisforKönigsberg’scathedraldrasticallyinfluencedthe
shiftinlocalartfromGermantoDutchinspirations.Atthesametime,
„MitteilungendesVereinsfürdieGeschichtevonOst-undWestpreussen“,1937,
vol.11,p.39-41.
8P.G.Thielen,DieKulturamHofeHerzogAlbrechtsvonPreussen(1525-1568),
Gottingen1953,p.42.
9J.Tondel,SrebrnabibliotekaksięciaAlbrechtaPruskiego…,p.10-13.
10S.Hauschke,DieGrabdenkmälerNürnbergerVischerwerkstatt1453-1544,ed.
R.Kahsnitz,Petersberg2006,andidem,GrabdenkmälerderNürnbergerVischer-
WerkstattfürdieHohenzollern,in:CranachunddieKunstderRenaissanceunterden
Hohenzollern:Kirche,HofundStadtkultur,Berlin2009,p.126-135.PaulVischer
appliedforthepositionofbellfounderinKönigsbergin1528.
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