Category: Sculptures

MUSEUM MADONNA

MODANNA IN A MUSEUM
Il de France
Circa 1260/70
Sandstone
Remnants of an earlier paint layer
Height 81 cm

We would like to thank Dr. Arthur Saliger, former director of the Cathedral Museum in Vienna and curator of the Medieval Collection at the Belvedere, for his art-historical analysis.

ANNA SELBDRITT

ANNA SELBDRITT
Pilgrimage Route / Southern France?
Circa 1200
Carved from walnut
Remnants of polychrome paint
Height 64 cm

SEDES SAPIENTIAE

SEDES SAPIENTIAE
Pornic / Loire-Atlantique, France
Second half of the 12th century
Carved from walnut
Remnants of polychrome paint
Height 61 cm

Bibliography:
Illustrated in “THE STUDIO”
October 1927, page 22

SEDES SAPIENTIAE

Sedes Sapientiae
Rhineland
Around 1330

Wood carved & polychrome painted
Height 35 cm

MUSEUM MADONNA

Museum Madonna
Nikolaus Weckmann
Ulm 1481 – 1526 Ulm

Carved limewood
Polychrome painted & gilded
Height 132 cm

FRITZ WOTRUBA

Fritz Wotruba
Vienna 1907 – 1975 Vienna

Horse
Around 1930
Bronze perdu, cast in a lost mold
(lost wax technique)
Height 36.5 cm, width 32 cm, depth 15.5 cm
Monogrammed FW

MONUMENTAL CHRIST

Monumental Christ
Styria
Around 1490
Carved limewood
Remains of polychromy
Height 150 cm

YOUTH WITH CENSER

Il-de-France
Around 1285

Sand-lime brick
Remains of original polychromy
Height 80 cm

With a style-critical analysis by Dr. Arthur Saliger, former curator of the medieval department in the Belvedere, Vienna and a scientific pigment analysis by Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr. Manfred Schreiner, former head of the Institute for Science and Technology at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

ANGEL OF PROCLAMATION AROUND 1380/90

Angel of the Annunciation
Prague workshop from the circle of Master Theoderich
(mentioned from 1359 to 1368)
Around 1380/90

Carved & polychrome painted limewood
Height 88 cm