Nessos Painter

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That Nessos painter (also Nise OS), was a pioneer of Attic black-figure vase painting. He is considered to be the first Athenian to adopt the Corinthian Style, and gone on to developed his own style introducing innovations.

On the neck that Amphora, which is today in the Athenian national museum, the painter depicted Nessos in the fight with Herakles . Marked is the figure also Netos. John D. Beazley, the Grundlagenforscher of the attic vase painting, gave him thereupon the names in the complete attic dialect form Nessos painter. Other researchers prefer those Koine- Version Nessos painter. It became later due to new finds in Athens and a rural cemetery with than Chimeira painter admitted painters identified by motives for animal from the same time. Beazley gave it thereupon the names Chimeira and nice OS painter, which could not become generally accepted however.

Its early works remind particularly in the use that proto Corinthian Filling ornamentations still strongly to those of the Painter of Berlin A 34. But with its name vase it placed that Ornamentation volume, which even at the time the still clay-indicating Corinthian showed still in contour drawing, in the new black figure mark way again. In the course of the time he transferred also the verzierenden arranged by cutting Rosetten of the Korinthern. Thus one can assume he in the last quarter of the sieved pre-Christian century, in the time of the transition from the proto korinthischen to korinthischen style was active. He did not completely without the traditional contour drawings, but by the introduction from two to even three cutting lines he introduced a new December express sharpness. Solid bodies are loosened up by these cutting - for instance with curls, feathers/springs or sheds -. That was not least because of the large extents of its image carriers - for example a Skyphos Kraters with a height of 1.10 meters - also necessary.

The Nessos painter is considered as the representatives, to who it succeeded to connect the classical attische vase painting and the new korinthischen style. Its motives are frequently animals or mythologische shapes and scenes. It uses white opaque color rarely, likes however red willingly. Possibly with from the ägyptschen art the taken over marking of white = womanlike and red = male has to do. Still up to the end of the schwarzfigurigen style white face color was used for the Kennzeichung of female faces.