The Nativity

The Nativity

BK-16985

The style of the famous Dutch sculptor Nicolaas Gerhaert van Leyden is reflected in the painstaking, calligraphic rendering of these figures, with their grace and spatial coherence. Van Leyden worked in Strasbourg and had a profound influence on Late Gothic German sculpture. The artist who made this beguiling nativity group was probably a pupil of his.

E.D. Schmid, Der Nördlinger Hochaltar und sein Bildhauerwerk. Rekonstruktion, Stil, Frage des Meisters (Nicolaus Gerhart von Leiden), Datierung, Ausstrahlung im Nördlinger Raum, Dissertatie Universiteit München, 1971, p. 72.

• sculptor: attributed to Hans Kamensetzer, Straatsburg (Frankrijk)
• sculptor: anoniem, Straatsburg (Frankrijk) [rejected]

c. 1470

loofhout (noten- of lindehout?) met originele polychromie

height 60.0 cm x width 55.0 cm x depth 30.0 cm

Public domain

…; sale, Georges Spetz (1844-1914, Issenheim), New York (American Art Association), 14 (17) January 1925 sqq., no. 713, $2,500;{Copy MMNY.} …; the dealer A.S. Drey, Munich, 1925;{Hessig 1935, p. 10, afb. 5, p. 117, note 8.}…; from Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 97, no. Bk 38, Artistic no. 5/43; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, ``O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939´´, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• E.D. Schmid, Der Nördlinger Hochaltar und sein Bildhauerwerk. Rekonstruktion, Stil, Frage des Meisters (Nicolaus Gerhart von Leiden), Datierung, Ausstrahlung im Nördlinger Raum, Dissertatie Universiteit München, 1971, p. 72.
• L. Schultes, 'Das Relief der Geburt Christi aus Freistadt/Hlohovec/Galgóc, die Wiener Burgkapellenfiguren und die Skulpturen des Kaschauer Hochaltars', Galéria : rocenka Slovenskej národnej galérie v Bratislava (2004), p. 213-214, 217.
• Pauline Kintz, 'Collectie : Een blik op Maria', Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 32 (2006) 6, p. 20-23 (afb.).
• H. Krohm, 'Bemerkungen zur kunstgeschichtlichen Problematik des Herlin-Retabels in Rothenburg o. T.', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 33 (1991), p. 205-207.
• Inzoomer object op zaal, 2013 (Nederlands/English).
• K. Chamonikolasová, 'Nicolaus Gerhaert of Leyden in the Moravian Context', Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 48 (1995), p. 77.

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