id: 111435 accession number: 1929.920 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.920 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:02.981000 Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1410. Master of the Fröndenberg Altarpiece (German). Tempera and gold on wood; framed: 77 x 59.5 x 8 cm (30 5/16 x 23 7/16 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 64.8 x 47.5 cm (25 1/2 x 18 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1929.920 title: Coronation of the Virgin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1410 creation date earliest: 1405 creation date latest: 1415 current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic creditline: Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: --- culture: Germany, 15th century technique: tempera and gold on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of the Fröndenberg Altarpiece (German) - artist The artist is named for the former high altar of the Cistercian convent at Fröndenberg on the Ruhr, of which a panel in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art formed a part. He was active in Westphalia in the early 1400s. --- measurements: Framed: 77 x 59.5 x 8 cm (30 5/16 x 23 7/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 64.8 x 47.5 cm (25 1/2 x 18 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Austellung westfälischer Alterthümer und Kunsterzeutnisse, Collegium Ludgerianum, Münster Germany (June 1879). * Art of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA (February 17 to March 24, 1940). * Conrad von Soest und Sein Kreis, Museum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany (July-September, 1950). --- PROVENANCE Cistercian Convent, Fröndenberg, Germany date: c. 1410 footnotes: citations: Haindorf Collection, Münster, Germany date: 1853 footnotes: citations: Loeb, Haus Caldenhof near Hamm, Germany date: 1879 footnotes: citations: (Sale: Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, Germany, June 8, 1929, no. 2) date: June 8, 1929 footnotes: citations: (A. S. Drey, Munich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This is only one panel from what would have been a large altarpiece dedicated to the Virgin. digital description: wall description: This panel once formed the left wing of an altarpiece originally located in a Cistercian convent in the German town of Fröndenberg. The Coronation of the Virgin was a common subject; though it is not based on a biblical text it often appeared in medieval books of hours as a focus of contemplation. It represents the culminating event in the life of Mary. Here, Christ and the Virgin are housed in an architectural setting; the Virgin kneels before Christ as he crowns her in the company of a group of angels. The color palette is particularly rich: pink, deep red, blue, and a delicate green as well as large areas of gold leaf. The well-developed, proportional figures, modeled drapery, and detailed architectural throne suggest an artist with a high level of experience and sophistication. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lübke, Wilhelm. Die mittelalterliche Kunst in Westfalen [Textbd.]. [Textbd.]. 1853. page number: 344 url: Katalog zur Austellung westfälischer Alterthümer u. Kunssterzeugnisse vom Vereine für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde Westfalens im Juni 1879 zu Munster. Münster: Dr. der Theissing'sthen Buchhandlung, 1879. page number: cat. no. 1446 url: Nordhoff, J.B. "Die Soester Malerei unter Meister Conrad," Bonner Jahrbucher LXVII (1879). page number: 126 url: Vogeler, and Albert Ludorff. Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen. 16, 16. Münster in Westfalen: Schöningh, 1905. page number: 148 url: Burger, Fritz, and H. Beth Schitz. Die deutsche Malerei der Renaissance. Leipzig: [s.n.], 1917. page number: 400 url: Hoelker, Carl. Meister Conrad von Soest und seine Bedeutung für die norddeutsche Malerei in der ersten Halfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. 1921. page number: p. 44 url: Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus. Altdeutsche und altniederländische Tafelgemälde. 1929. page number: no. 2 url: W. M. M. “‘Coronation of the Virgin,’ by Conrad Von Soest: Fourth Gift of the Friends of the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 2 (1930). page number: pp. 19-22 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137273 Nissen, Robert, "Der Meister des Frondenberger Altares," Westfalen XVI (1931). page number: pp. 62-5 url: Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1934. page number: 1938: pp. 35-37, fig. 36 url: Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika, mit über 300 Kupfertiefdrucktafeln. Wien: Phaidon-Verlag, 1935. page number: pl. 195 url: 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. page number: cat. no. 210, pl. XLI url: Kuhn, Charles Louis, and Arthur Burkhard. A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1936. page number: no. 62 url: Tietze, Hans. Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. page number: p. 195 url: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Arts of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400: A Loan Exhibition : February 17 to March 24, 1940, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. [Boston]: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1940. page number: cat. no. 77 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. [2] url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n10 Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund. Conrad von Soest und sein Kreis: Ausstellung. Dortmund: The Museum, 1950. page number: ca. no. 79 url: Rensing, Theodor. "Ratsel um Konrad von Soest," Westfalen XXVIII (1950). page number: 164 url: Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955). page number: p. 8 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 456 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n84 Muhlberg, Fried. Bau- und Kunstdenkmalervon Westfalen, 47 Bd. Kreis Unna. (1959). page number: 138 url: “Gothic Art 1360-1440.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). page number: cat. no. 51 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 66 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n90 Troescher, George. Burgundische Malerei. Berlin: Mann, 1966. page number: I, 64; II, pl. 59, fig. 176 url: Stange, Alfred. Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. (München): Bruckmann, 1967. page number: 143, no. 461 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 66 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n90 Wixom, William D. “An Enthroned Madonna with the Writing Christ Child.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 9 (1970) page number: 297, fig. 23 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152349 Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: pp. 27-29, cat no. 10 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 74 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n94 Meister des Fröndenberger Altares, Jürgen Reissner, and Gerhard Lemke. Der Marienaltar in der Stiftskirche zu Fröndenberg. Fröndenberg: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Fröndenberg und Bausenhagen, 2002. page number: Fig. 11, p. 52 url: Köllermann, Antje-Fee, and Christine Unsinn. Die Goldene Tafel aus Lüneburg: Akten des wissenschaftlichen Kolloqiums - Ergebnisband des Forschungsprojektes. Petersberg : Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 149, fig. 35 url: Reissner, Jürgen, and Conrad. Der Fröndenberger Flügelaltar: das Frühwerk des Conrad von Soest : eine Einordnung in sein Werk. Fröndenberg: Stadt Fröndenberg/Ruhr, 2004. page number: p. 41 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.920/1929.920_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.920/1929.920_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.920/1929.920_full.tif