Portrait of Leonhard Fuchs

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1525

German; Bavaria

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: German School
Title: Portrait of Leonhard Fuchs
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1525
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: 1525 (on plaque attached to column); coats of arms of Fuchs (lower left); Friedberger (lower right)
Dimensions: 40.7 × 28.5 cm (16 1/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1947.88
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“Early German Exhibition at Kleinberger’s,” Art News 27, 6 (1928), p. 5.
Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1931, p. 192, no. 1098.28.
Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 65, no. 270.
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 41, no. 37.
Werner Fleischhauer, “Ein Jugendbildnis von Leonhard Fuchs,” Heimatkundliche Blätter für den Kreis Tübingen (Oct. 1950), n.pag. (ill.).
R. Rau, “Zur Lebensgeschichte des Dr. Leonhard Fuchs und seiner Familie,” Tübinger Blätter 38 (1951), p. 45 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 176.
Werner Fleischhauer, “Ein unbekanntes Bild-nis der Tübinger Botaniker Fuchs—vermutlich von Jörg Ziegler,” Tübinger Forschungen 7 (Apr. 5, 1962), n.pag.
Werner Fleischhau-er, Renaissance im Herzogtum Württemberg, Stuttgart, 1971, p. 156.
M[onika] Ko[pplin], in Die Renaissance im deutschen Süd-westen zwischen Reformation und Dreißigjährigem Krieg, exh. cat., Heidelberger Schloss, 1986, p. 181, under no. C 14.
Angelica Dülberg, Privatporträts: Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1990, pp. 24, 88, 109, 112, 206, no. 107, figs. 489–90.
Frederick G. Meyer, Emily Emmart Trueblood, and John L. Heller, The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs: “De historia stirpium commentarii in-signes, 1542,” vol. 1, Stanford, 1999, pp. 51, 821 n. 29, 829 n. 19, fig. 4, frontispiece.
Gerd Brinkus and Claudine Pachnicke, eds., Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566): Mediziner und Botaniker, exh. cat., Stadtmuseum Tübingen, 2001, p. 138 (ill.).
Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2006, pp. 329-330, ill.

New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 43, as Hans Maler zu Schwaz, Portrait of a Courtier of the Welser Family.
Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29, as Hans Maler zu Schwaz (no cat.).

Baron Eugen von Kohner, Budapest [information supplied by Heinemann in a note of November 27, 1928 in curatorial file].Galerie Heinemann, Mu-nich, by 1928; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [lent by him to New York 1928]; given to the AIC, 1947.

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