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Lot 36: HANS SCHÄUFELEIN

Est: £1,500,000 GBP - £2,000,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 06, 2011

Item Overview

Description

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
N?RDLINGEN 1482/3-CIRCA 1539/40
A DOUBLE-SIDED ALTARPIECE PANEL
INNER SIDE: THE DORMITION OF THE VIRGIN
OUTER SIDE: CHRIST CARRYING THE CROSS
tempera and oil on panel, made up of several vertical planks of pine
139.5 by 135 cm.; 55 by 53 1/8 in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Birmingham, St. Chad's Roman Catholic Cathedral, (St Edward's Chapel), on long-term loan 1927-1969;
London, Dyer, 1954;
Munich, Kunstmesse, 1978;
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Hans Holbein d.Ä. Die Graue Passion in ihrer Zeit, 27 November 2010 - 20 March 2011, no. 124.

Literature

E. Buchner, `Der Junge Schäufelein als Maler und Zeichner', in Festschrift für Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstag, 1927, p. 71;
C. Beutler & G. Thiem, Hans Holbein d. Ä.  Die Spätgotische Altar- und Glasmalerei, Augsburg 1960, pp. 71ff, 108ff;
P. Strieder, in Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, 1960, pp. 98ff;
Meister um Albrecht Dürer, Nuremberg 1961, p. 23;
P. Strieder, `Masters in the Circle of Albrecht Dürer', in The Connoisseur, 148, August 1961, pp. 43-5;
P. Strieder, `Hans Holbein der Ältere zwischen Spätgotik und Renaissance.  Zu den neuen Publikationen über den Künstler', in Pantheon, 19, 1961, pp. 98-100;
N. Pevsner & A. Wedgwood, The Buildings of England, Warwickshire, Harmondsworth 1966, p. 112 (as Attributed to Dürer);
T. Falk, `Notizien zur Augburger Malerwerkstatt des älteren Holbein', in Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, 30, 1976, p. 16;
C. Baur, `Die Tafelbilder', in G. Bauer (ed.), Der Hochaltar der Schwabacher Stadtkirche, Schwabach 1983, p. 100;
S. Weih-Krüger, `Hans Schäufelein.  Ein Beitrag zur künstlerischen Entwicklung des jungen Hans Schäufelein...,' in Das Münster, vol. 41, 1988, p. 60;
P. Strieder, `Dokumente und Überlegungen zum Weg Hans Schäufeleins...', in Hans Schäufelein. Vorträge, gehalten anlässlich des Nördlinger Symposiums ..., Nördlingen 1990, pp. 262ff;
E. Rettich, in R. Klapproth (ed.) Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Alte Meister, Stuttgart 1992, pp. 383-6;
L. Altmann, `Schäufelin, Hans' in R. Bäumer & L. Scheffczyk (ed.), Marienlexikon, vol. 5, St. Ottilien 1993, pp. 692ff;
J.O. Hand, German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (National Gallery, Washington, Systematic catalogue), Washington and Cambridge 1993,  p. 164, n13;
C. Baer, Die italienischen Bau- und Ornamentformen in der Augsburger Kunst zi Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt-am-Main  1993, pp. 169ff;
P. Strieder, Tafelmalerei in Nürnberg 1350-1550, Königstein im Taunus 1993, p. 146;
B. Butts, in J. Turner (ed.), The Dictionary of Art, vol. 28, London 1996, p. 58;
C. Metzger, Hans Schäufelin als Maler, Berlin 2002, pp. 278-290, no. 17d & 17h, reproduced plates 137 & 138, p. 282, fig. 196 & 287, fig. 200;
D. Roberts & E. Wiemann, in E. Wiemann (ed.),  Hans Holbein d.Ä. Die Graue Passion in ihrer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart 2010, pp. 376-387, no. 124, reproduced p. 379, 383; also D. Roberts, idem, p. 306.

Provenance

Said to be Art market, Munich, 1830s;
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, London, by whom acquired in Munich;
By whom given to John T. Hardman, Birmingham;
By whose heirs lent to St. Chad's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham, 1927-1969;
By descent to his grandson, H.G. Rowland, Birmingham or Cheltenham;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 26 June 1970, lot 52, for 10,000 Guineas to Holstein;
With Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich, 1970;
Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt;
With Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich;
From whom acquired by the present owner in 1978.

Auction Details

Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale

by
Sotheby's
July 06, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK