About This Artwork

Hans Klocker
Austrian, active 1477-1500

Death of the Virgin Mary, c. 1486/90

Linden wood with polychrome and gilding
164.5 x 130.8 cm (64 3/4 x 51 1/2 in.)
Lucy Maude Buckingham Collection, 1919.875

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

William Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin,1897), pp. 13, 65, cat. 31.

Christoph Martin Vogtherr, “Ein neuer Fund zu Hans Klockers Altar aus St. Leonhard,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 45, (Berlin, 1991), p. 172, fig. 1.

Barbara Paul, "Das Kollektionieren ist die edelste aller Leidenschaften!: Wilhelm von Bode und das Verhaltnis zwischen Museum, Kunsthandel und Privatsammlertum," Kritische Berichte 21,3 (1993), p. 53, fig. 8 [illustration showing The Death of Mary on wall in Hainauer's Berlin villa].

Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America: II. The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, 2001), pp. 2-3, no. 1.

Ownership History

Oscar Hainauer (d. 1894), Berlin [see von Bode 1897, no. 31]; by descent to his widow, Julia Hainauer; sold with rest of collection to Duveen, London, in 1906 [see Paul, 1993, p. 52]. P. W. French & Co., New York, by 1919; sold to Kate Buckingham (d. 1937), Chicago [according to note in Registrar's files]; given to the museum in 1919.