The Death of the Virgin

1486/90

Hans Klocker
Austrian, active 1474-1502

Status: On View, Gallery 237
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Hans Klocker
Title: The Death of the Virgin
Place: Austria (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.: 1481–1495
Medium: Pine with polychromy and gilding
Dimensions: 164.5 × 130.8 × 11.4 cm (64 3/4 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1919.875
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Wilhelm Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin,1897), pp. 13, 65, no. 31.
Christoph Martin Vogtherr, “Ein neuer Fund zu Hans Klockers Altar aus St. Leonhard,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 45 (1991), pp. 171-77, figs. 1 and 2.
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.
D[onald] L. E[hresmann] in Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America: II. The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, 2001), pp. 2-3, no. 1, ill.
Ulrich Söding, “Gotische Skulptur” in Kunst in Tirol, vol. 1, Von den Anfängen bis zur Renaissance, ed. Paul Naredi-Rainer and Lukas Madersbacher (Innsbruck, Vienna and Bolzano, 2007), p. 252, under no. 162.
Matthias Weniger, “Notizen zu Hans Klocker” in Nicht die Bibliothek, sondern das Auge. Westeuropäische Skulptur und Malerei an der Wende zur Neuzeit. Beiträge zu Ehren von Hartmut Krohm (Petersberg, 2008), pp. 47, 48, 54, n. 28.

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.

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