Chartreuse de champmol claus sluter biography

  • Claus Sluter was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380.
  • Claus Sluter was an influential master of early Netherlandish sculpture, who moved beyond the dominant French taste of the time and into highly individual.
  • Claus Sluter, (born c.

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    Object details

    The Well of Moses 1395-1405
    Limestone
    Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon

    Claus Sluter
    Haarlem ca. 1360 – 1405/1406 Dijon

    Gallery

    The Well of Moses (David en Moses)Photo: Steven Zucker (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

    The Well of Moses (Daniel en Jesaja)Wiki Commons/ Public Domain/ Foto: Paul Hermans 2017

    The Well of Moses (Jeremiah en Zacharias)Wiki Commons/ Public Domain/ Foto: Paul Hermans 2017

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    Claus Sluter

    Dutch then Burgundian sculptor

    Claus Sluter (1340s in Haarlem[1] – 1405 or 1406 in Dijon) was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380.[2] He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism" of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.

    Life

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    The name "Claes de Slutere van Herlam" is inscribed in the Register of the Corporation of Stonemasons and Sculptors of Brussels around the years 1379/1380.[3] He then moved to the Burgundian capital of Dijon, where from 1385 to 1389 he was the assistant of Jean de Marville, court sculptor to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. From 1389 to his death he was court sculptor himself, with the rank of valet de chambre. He was succeeded by his nephew Claus de Werve.

    Work

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    Sluter's most significant work i

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    Claus Sluter (1340-1406)

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    SCULPTING MEDIA
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    Chip carving, relief carving of
    softwoods and hardwoods.
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    Lost-wax casting method,
    sandcasting, centrifugal casting.

    Biography

    Born in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1340, Sluter's life remains largely unrecorded. It fryst vatten thought that his full name may be Claes de Slutere van Herlam who was listed in the records of the stonemas