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Adoration of the Magi

early 1440s

Konrad Laib

(German)

Germany, born Ensingen, active Austria, 15th century

Oil on panel

Image: 98 x 61.6 cm (38 9/16 x 24 1/4 in.); Framed: 111 x 75 x 7.5 cm (43 11/16 x 29 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 100.2 x 64 cm (39 7/16 x 25 3/16 in.)

Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1936.18

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111 German and Austrian Gothic

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A companion piece to this one is in the Freising Seminary in Germany and depicts the Nativity.

Description

Laib was a German painter who spent most of his career in Austria. Proof that he came to Salzburg at an early age is suggested by the stylistic affinity of many of his works with Salzburg painting, including this one.

Provenance

1926

E. Proehl, Amsterdam, Netherlands

(A. S. Drey, Munich, Germnay and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1936-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie. Ausstellung Gotik in Österreich, veranstaltet vom Verein der Museumgreund in Wein im Österreichischen Museum für Kunst und Industrie, 15. September bis 8. November 1926. [Wien]: [Krystall-Verlag], 1926. Cat. no. 188

Furlong, George J. "Austrian Gothic Art in Vienna," Burlington Magazine XLIX (1926). pp. 284-285, pl. II C

Pächt, Otto. Os̈terreichische Tafelmalerei der Gotik. Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929. p. 27

Baldass, Ludwig. "Der Meister des Grazer Dombildes und Seine Kunstgeschichtliche Stellung," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien n.s. IV (1930). p. 204

Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1934. p. 21

Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. cat. no. 199, pl XL

Francis, Henry S. “An Austrian Primitive for the Holden Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 9 (1936). pp. 133, 135-8 www.jstor.org

Oettinger, Karl. Altdeutsche Maler der Ostmark. Wien: Anton Schroll, 1942. p. 26

Fischer, Otto, "Konrad Laib," Pantheon XXXI (1943). p. 3

Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 41 archive.org

Baldass, Ludwig. Conrad Laib und die beiden Rueland Frueauf. Wien: A. Schroll, 1947. pp. 9, 64

Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955). p. 6

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 454 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 67 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 67 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . no. 1, p. 3

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 77 archive.org

Laib, Conrad, and Arthur Saliger. Conrad Laib. Wien: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 1997. p. 36

Köllermann, Antje-Fee. Conrad Laib: ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2007. p. 113, fig. 142

Exhibition history

Gotik in Osterreich, Osterreichisches Museum fur Kins und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (September 15-November 8, 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).

Five Centuries of German Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12-December 13, 1936).

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

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