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Collection Online as of April 21, 2024

Crucified Christ

c. 1525–1530

Hans Leinberger

(German)

Germany, Landshut, 16th century

lindenwood

Part 1: 105.9 x 108 cm (41 11/16 x 42 1/2 in.); Part 2: 215.6 x 121.9 cm (84 7/8 x 48 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.293

Location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic

Description

This sculpture is possibly the best of several crucifixes by this famous sculptor from the Bavarian town of Landshut on the Upper Danube. The pathos and graphic realism with which the artist has modeled the body of Christ ranks this sculpture as one of the artist’s finest works. Leinberger was, along with Matthäus Krennis, an outstanding exponent of the late Gothic style pervasive throughout the Upper Danube area of southeastern Germany during the first decades of the 1500s. This sculpture was probably suspended over the main altar of a church whose origins have not been identified.

Georg Schuster Collection, Munich, Germany; (Julius Böhler, Munich, Germany).
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 190 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. 110 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. 110 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 87 archive.org
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
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