MASTER OF THE ROCKELFINGER/ WARTENBERGER ALTARPIECE
(active in the Munich region, c. 1510)
A PAIR OF CANDLE-BEARING ANGELS
Munich, c. 1510/15
Lime wood, sculptures in the round, originally unpainted
Height: 79 cm and 85 cm
Provenance:
Collection Benoit Oppenheim, Berlin (1842-1931); Collection cat. Nachtrag, 1911, no. 120/121. -
1939 on loan to the World Exhibition in New York -
1948 sold to the Saint Louis Art Museum -
since 2017 in private collections
Expertise: Dr. Benno C. Gantner
Literature: Benno C. Gantner: Die bewegte Geschichte des Gnadenbildes von Aufkirchen am Starnberger See. In: Ars Bavarica, vol. 89, Starnberg 2021, pp. 32 f.
Originalbildwerke in Holz Stein Elfenbein usw. Aus der Sammlung Benoit Oppenheim Berlin, Benoit Oppenheim (ed.), Nachtrag, Leipzig 1911, plate 63, no. 120 and plate 64, no. 121.