Search Request | Object report

Madonna and Child

Lost Art-ID

590487

Abbildung aus dem Auktionskatalog März 1918 Cassirer/Helbing (Berlin), Nr. 87, Abb. Tafel 9. | Illust. auction catalogue March 1918 Cassirer/Helbing (Berlin), no. 87, ill. plate 9.

Familienfoto - einzige Abbildung eines Sammlungsgegenstandes | family picture - the only illustration of a collection object.

Artist / Creator

Erhart, Gregor (bis 1927 Sürlin (Syrlin) Werkstatt zugeschrieben)

Birth

1470 (um), Ulm

Death

1540, Augsburg

Title

Madonna and Child

Dating

1510/1520

Object type

Sculpture

Group of reported objects

Sculpture

Material / Technique

Wood (Lime) / carved

Measures

Höhe abweichend | deviating height: 111 cm

Height

97.00 cm

Description

finely crafted Madonna sculpture. Carries the child on her left arm, her right hand supporting under the armpit. The child rests his right arm on the mother's upper body, who is wearing a high crown with an acanthus leaf pattern

Provenance

17/20 March 1918 Cassirer/Helbing, Berlin, lot 87 (ill. plate 9); Martin Schwersenz, Berlin; [...]; at least since 1925 until his deportation in 1942, the Madonna sculpture belonged to the Felix Ganz Collection (Mainz) and is mentioned several times in the private correspondence of the Ganz family, where only one photograph was preserved; [...] - the withdrawal due to Nazi persecution is suspected, the exact circumstances of the loss are unclear; whereabouts unknown

Literature / Source

Auktion | Auction: Gumprecht 17./20.03 1918 bei Cassirer/Helbing in Berlin (Losnr. 87, mit Abb. Tafel 9) - annotierter Auktionskatalog im Archiv Cassirer;

Ausstellung | Exhibition: 1925 ausgestellt in Mainz "Ausstellung alter Kunst in kurfürstlichen Schloss zu Mainz Juli - September 1925, Nr. 75 (Höhe dort mit 111 cm angegeben);

Literatur | Literature: Gertrud Otto; Watzinger, Carl; Weise, Georg: Die Ulmer Plastik der Spätgotik, Tübinger Forschungen zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Band 7: Reutlingen, 1927, S. 89/90 Abb. 93 (dort Gregor Erhart zugeschrieben); Gertrud Otto; Ulmer Plastik, Habilschrift, Posen, 1943, S.75

Published since

09.09.2020

Contact

Prof. Adam Ganz

E-Mail

Adam.Ganz@rhul.ac.uk