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Johann Koerbecke (artist) German, c. 1420 - 1491 The Ascension, 1456/1457 tempera on panel Overall: 92.7 x 64.8 cm (36 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.) framed: 117.1 x 85.1 cm (46 1/8 x 33 1/2 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1959.9.5 |
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Provenance
Part of the high altar in the abbey church of the Cistercian Cloister at Marienfeld, near Münster, completed in 1456/1457, installed 6 February 1457, until 1803.[1] Charles Léon Cardon, Brussels, by 1912.[2] Rudolph Chillingworth, Lucerne, Brussels, and Nuremberg; (sale, Galeries Fischer and Frederik Muller & Cie., Lucerne, 5 September 1922, no. 47). Possibly private collection, Basel.[3] (Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1934).[4] Jacob Walter Zwicky, Freiburg and Arlesheim-Basel, by 1937;[5] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1955, owned with Pinakos, Inc. [Rudolph Heinemann]);[6] purchased 1957 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1959 by exchange to NGA.
[1] Alb. Wormstall, "Zur Geschichte der Liesborner und Marienfelder Altargemälde," Zeitschrift für vaterländische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde 55 (1897), 90-92, Rincklake's "Gutachten" is cited, 99-102. See also Johannes Sommer, Johann Koerbecke. Der Meister des Marienfelder Altares von 1457 (Münster 1937), 11-12, 17-18. Jochen Luckhardt, Der Hochaltar der Zisterzienserklosterkirche Marienfled. (Bildhefte des Westfälischen Landesmuseums für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Nr. 25) (Münster 1987), 24, 34, notes the tradition of reliquary altars in the Cistercian order and reproduces two examples from the fourteenth century.
[2] Exhibited with the Cardon collection in Brussels, 1912: Exposition de la Miniature [exh. cat., Palais Goffinet] (Brussels, 1912), no. 2051, as "Anonyme (Ecole de Souabe, XV siècle)".
[3] Unverified, but listed as such by Walter Hugelshofer, "Der Hochaltar von 1457 des Klosters Marienfeld in Westfalen." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 60 (1926/1927): 179; M. Lippe, "Koerbecke, Johann." Thieme-Becker 21 (1927): 175; and Walter Hugelshofer, "Koerbecke und der Marienfelder Altar von 1457. Ein Beitrag zur Westfälischen malerei." Der Cicerone 22 (1930): 373.
[4]Exhibited at Böhler in 1934. Böhler no. 37-34, per index to card file, Böhler Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute. No card appears to exist.
[5] Sommer, 1937, 16, no. 7, listed the painting as being in a private collection in Basel.
[6] Joint ownership confirmed by Melissa De Medeiros, Librarian, M. Knoedler & Co., letter of 7 March 1989, to John Hand, in the NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
- Böhler, Julius
- Cardon, Charles Léon
- Chillingworth, Rudolph
- Cistercian Cloister at Marienfeld, Abbey Church,
- Galeries Fischer
- Heinemann, Rudolf J.
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Muller & Co., Frederik
- Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
- Zwicky, Jacob Walter
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