Skulpturen & Kunsthandwerk

TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER,
1460 HEILIGENSTADT – 1531 WÜRZBURG,
WORKSHOP OF
SAINT JOHN
Height: 115 cm.
Provenance:
According to the tradition of the sellers, the present
figure was acquired in 1932 from a farmer in Seinsheim
in Lower Franconia, not far from Würzburg.
Galerie Dr Phil Hans Rudolph, Hamburg, acquired from
the above.
Dr Caspers, Hamburg, acquired from the above in
the 1950s.
Literature:
Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, Sotheby´s, New
York, 31 January 2013, lot 342, pp. 298-301.
cf. Justus Bier, Tilmann Riemenschneider. Die Frühen
Werke, Würzburg 1925.
cf. Justus Bier, The Sculptures of Tilmann Riemenschneider,
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
1962.
cf. Justus Bier, Tilmann Riemenschneider. Die späten
Werke in Holz, Vienna 1978, no. 31.
cf. Justus Bier, Tilmann Riemenschneider. His Life
and Work, Kentucky 1982.
cf. Julien Chapuis (ed.), Tilman Riemenschneider.
Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/ The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, Washington and New
Haven 1999, cat. no. 43.
cf. Julien Chapuis (ed.), Tilman Riemenschneider
c. 1460-1531, Studies in the History of Art 65, Center
for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium
Papers XLII, The National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., New Haven and London 2004.
cf. Tilman Riemenschneider- Werke seiner Blütezeit
(exhibition catalogue), Mainfränkisches Museum
Würzburg, 24 March - 13 June 2004, no. 1, p. 341-343,
no. 71, p. 342, ill. 106, 296, 297.
€ 140.000 - € 180.000
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