Krönung und Tod Mariens Rückseite: Christus am Ölberg (rechte Hälfte)

The Meister des Obersteiner Altars is a German workshop personality named after an altarpiece from the village of Obersteinbach in the Rhineland. The Coronation and Death of the Virgin on one side and Christ in Gethsemane on the reverse (c. 1500) represents the standard double-sided format of German altarpiece wings, where the interior face was revealed during feast days and the exterior face served as the everyday visual. The Coronation was the culminating episode of the Virgin's narrative and the appropriate terminus for a Marian altarpiece cycle; the Gethsemane scene on the reverse served as the Good Friday display. Rhenish painting around 1500 balanced local Gothic tradition with the influence of Dürer's woodcut revolution.

The Coronation scene is organized on the vertical: Christ and God the Father above on cloud-borne thrones, the ascending Mary below flanked by angels, apostles at the base witnessing the empty tomb. The composition compresses celestial and earthly zones into a single field without spatial contradiction, a convention the German Gothic tradition maintained confidently. The Gethsemane reverse is more dramatically lit with a nocturnal setting, using dark grounds with single torch or moonlight illumination of the sleeping disciples.