0061
Circle of Rueland Frueauf the Elder
„The martyrdom of Saint Apollonia“
oil/tempera on panel
54 x 38.5 cm
Provenance
c. 1928/36 Munich art market;
collection of the brothers Hans and Louis Lion, Munich/ Vienna;
confiscated in 1938/39 by the National Socialists;
1942 sold through the Galerie L.T. Neumann, Vienna, to the Salzburg Museum (formerly Salzburger Museum Carolino-Augusteum);
1952 (after a restitution proceeding) restituted to the collection of the Lion brothers;
according to the owner acquired in the 1980s from an art dealer, Salzburg;
since then private property, Austria
Literature
Eberhard Lutze/Eberhard Wiegand, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums zu Nürnberg. Die Gemälde des 13. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 1, Leipzig 1937, p. 157, notes cat.-no. 1244;
Ernst Buchner (ed.), Albrecht Altdorfer und sein Kreis. Gedächtnisausstellung zum 400. Todesjahr Altdorfers (exhibition catalogue, Alte Pinakothek, Munich), Munich 1938, p. 142, cat.-no. 658 and 659 (as "Meister der Ottilienlegende");
Ludwig von Baldass, Conrad Laib und die beiden Rueland Frueauf, Vienna 1946, p. 44 and p. 71, fig. 104 (as School of Rueland Frueauf the Elder, provenience mixed-up with fig. 105);
Alfred Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Vol. 10. Salzburg, Bayern und Tirol in der Zeit von 1400 bis 1500, Munich/Berlin 1960, p. 43 (as School/Studio of Rueland Frueauf the Elder);
Josef Gassner (ed.), Ausstellung Spätgotik in Salzburg. Die Malerei 1400-1530 (exhibition catalogue, Jahresschrift Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, 26th May to 1st October 1972), Salzburg 1972, pp. 122 f. (as probably Circle of Rueland Frueauf the Elder);
Susanne Wegmann, Auf dem Weg zum Himmel. Das Fegefeuer in der deutschen Kunst des Mittelalters, dissertation, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2003, pp. 274 f., cat.-no. 6.1 (as "Meister der Ottilienlegende")
Estimate: € 15.000 - 25.000
Result: € 24.320 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.