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Death of the Virgin

c. 1400

Master of Heiligenkreuz

(Austrian)

Austria, possibly Bohemia, early 15th Century

Tempera and oil with gold on panel

Image: 66 x 53.3 cm (26 x 21 in.); Framed: 74 x 61.5 x 4.5 cm (29 1/8 x 24 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 71 x 54 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.)

Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of John Long Severance 1936.496

Location

111 German and Austrian Gothic

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The artist was named for a painting that was once in the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz in Austria.

Description

Christ’s apostles visit the Virgin upon her deathbed. Saint Peter, wearing white robes and the papal tiara, performs funerary rites, reciting prayers and sprinkling holy water on the Virgin’s body. Above, angels engraved upon the golden background celebrate the assumption of the Virgin heavenward. Once joined to another panel titled The Death of Saint Clare (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), this double representation of saintly deaths may have been used in funerary services in the convent of Clarissan nuns for which it was made.

Provenance

1924

(Walter Schnackenberg, Munich, Germany)

-1936

(Jacob Hirsch, New York, NY)

1936-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Buchner, Ernst. "Eine Gruppe deutscher Tafelbilder vom Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts," Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Kunst I (1924). I, 2, 4, 12, fig. I

Suida, William. Osterreichische Malerei in der Zeit Erzherzogs Ernst des Eisernen und Konig Albrechts II (Vienna, 1926). p. 25

Baldass, Ludwig. "Review of Beitrage zur Gschichte der druschen Kunst, Belvedere, X (1926). p. 133

Baldass, "Die Wiener Tafelmalerei von 1410-1460," Cicerone XXI Pt. I (1929). 66

Tietze, Hans, "Acqusitions nouvelles de la Galerie de Vienne," L'Amour de l'art x (1929). 293

Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [New York]: [The Art news], 1936. cat. no. 198

Oettinger, Karl, "Zu Malerei um 1400 in Osterreich," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s.x (1936). 78

Francis, Henry S. “A Panel by the Master of Heiligenkreuz, a Memorial to John Long Severance.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 10 (1937). pp. 153-156 www.jstor.org

Ring, Grete, "Primitifs Francais," Gazette des Beaux Arts, I (1938). 158

Sterling, Charles. La peinture française: les primitifs. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1938. p. 151, n. 31

Sterling, Charles. La peinture française: les peintres du moyen âge. Paris: Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1941. Repertoire B, no. 9, p. 13

Larsen-Roman, Eric and Lucy, "Les Origines Provencales du Maitre de Heiligenkreuz," Apollo Chronique des Beaux Arts (Brussels, 1943). no. 18, p. 17

Ring, "An Austrian Triptych," Art Bulletin XXVI (1944). 51

Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 40 archive.org

Ring, Grete. A Century of French Painting, 1400-1500. London: Phaidon Press, 1949. p. 199

Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1950. 144

Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American-German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955). p. 6, no. 2

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 452 archive.org

Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1961. p. 4

Musper, H. Theodor. Gotische Malerei nördlich der Alpen. Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1961. p. 119

“Gothic Art 1360-1440.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). cat. no. 3, repr. p. 206 www.jstor.org

Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künster von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: unter mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des in- und Auslaudes. Leipzig: Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1964. p. 144

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 66 archive.org

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools. London: published by the Phaidon P. for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1966. fig. 51

Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. p. 105

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 66 archive.org

Musper, H. Theodor. Altdeutsche Malerei. [Köln]: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. p. 27, 93

Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . cat. no. 2

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 75 archive.org

Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.

May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. no. 24, pp. 27-8, 116

Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. p. 17, fig. 10

Ilardi, Vincent. Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes. 2007. p. 271, fig. 5

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. cat. 87, p. 236

Nash, Susie, Till Borchert, Emma Capron, and Jim Harris. Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings. London: Sam Fogg, 2011. p 191, fig 23

Oberhaidacher, Jörg. Die Wiener Tafelmalerei der Gotik um 1400: Werkgruppen - Maler - Stile. Wien: Böhlau, 2012. p. 343, nr 12

Gertsman, Elina. "Inciting Despair." In Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Maureen C. Miller, and Edward Wheatley, 121-138. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. Reproduced: fig. 8.5

Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Mentioned: p. 184-187; Reproduced: p. 185

Exhibition history

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (1926).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

Master of Heiligenkreuz. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria (organizer) (March 26-June 30, 2019).

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