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Tilman Riemenschneider (artist) German, c. 1460 - 1531 A Bishop Saint (Burchard of Würzburg?), c. 1515/1520 linden wood with traces of polychromy overall: 82.3 x 47.2 x 30.2 cm (32 3/8 x 18 9/16 x 11 7/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.1.1 |
Object 12 of 12
Provenance
Wilhelm and his son Jens [d. 1901] Sattler, Schloss Mainberg (near Kitzingen), before 1826; (Sattler sale, Rudolph Lepke Kunst-Auction-Haus, Berlin, 29 October-2 November 1901, no. 63);[1] Benoit Oppenheim, Berlin, until at least 1927;[2] Munich art market;[3] Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, by 1934; New York art market, 1943; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[4] sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[5] gift by exchange 1961 to NGA.
[1] Justus Bier, "The Bust of a Bishop by Tilmann Riemenschneider," Art Quarterly 6 (1943): 166, n. 3.
[2] Max J. Friedländer, "Review of Eduard Tönnies, Leben und Weke des Würzburger Bildschnitzers Tilmann Riemenschneider, Strasbourg, 1901," RfK 24 (1901): 468; Benoit Oppenheim, Originalbildwerke in Holz, Stein, Elfenbein, usw. aus der Sammlung Benoit Oppenheim, Berlin, Leipzig, 1907: no. 10, pl. 6; Kurt Prister, Riemenschneider, Dresden, 1927: 34.
[3] Bier 1943, 159.
[4] Justus Bier, "Tilman Riemenschneider," in Thieme-Becker 28 (1934), 334; Bier 1943, 159. Undated Duveen brochure, in NGA curatorial files.
[5] Middeldorf 1976, 125.
Associated Names
- Art market, Paris
- Art market, Paris
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Goldman, Henry
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Oppenheim, Benoit
- Sattler, Jens
- Sattler, Wilhelm
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