!!!Villacher Werkstätten

Villacher Werkstaetten, important Carinthian wood-carving workshops of 
the late Gothic era, particularly famous for numerous outstanding 
winged altars, some of which were even commissioned from outside 
Carinthia. Information about the earliest workshop is scarce (around 
1485-1500), its chief master was most likely L. Tausmann, who is 
mentioned in a document of 1497. Its works in Carinthia include the 
winged altar-pieces in Ossiach (around 1510), Friesach (church of the 
Teutonic order, 1510-1515) and Maria Gail (1510-1515). The latest 
workshop was at its artistic peak around 1510-1530. Its works are 
distinguished by the harmonious and sensuous curves of bodies and 
garment folds, by bright coloration and traces of forms found in 
Italian Renaissance, later abundant ornaments. This studio had a high 
output, its main master was probably Master Heinrich, mentioned in 
documents of St. Lambrecht abbey (Styria) in the years 1503, 1511 
and 1523. Some of its winged altar-pieces can be found in Carinthia, 
for example in Seltschach (around 1514), Althofen (around 1511-1520), 
Maria Elend im Rosental (around 1516), Maria Saal (around 1520-1522, 
called "Arndorf altar"), St. Wolfgang ob Grades (around 
1520), and in Styria, for example in the Abbey of St. Lambrecht 
(e.g. Auxuliary Saints altar, probably 1523) and in the Joanneum 
museum in Graz (around 1525, "Fohnsdorf altar").

!Literature
Kae. Kunst des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, 
Oesterreichische Galerie und Kaerntner Landesgalerie in Klagenfurt 
1970/71; O. Demus, Die spaetgotischen Altaere Kaerntens, 1991.


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