id: 115394
accession number: 1936.18
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.18
updated: 2025-02-09 00:14:03.981000
Adoration of the Magi, early 1440s. Konrad Laib (German). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1936.18
title: Adoration of the Magi
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creation date: early 1440s
creation date earliest: 1440
creation date latest: 1445
current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic
creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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culture: Germany, born Ensingen, active Austria, 15th century
technique: oil on panel
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Medieval Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Konrad Laib (German) - artist
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measurements: 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.)
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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 4, 1936).
title: Five Centuries of German Art
opening date: 1936-11-12T05:00:00
Five Centuries of German Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12-December 13, 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Gotik in Osterreich, Osterreichisches Museum fur Kins und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (September 15-November 8, 1926).', 'opening_date': '1926-09-15T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
E. Proehl, Amsterdam, Netherlands
date: 1926
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(A. S. Drey, Munich, Germnay and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1936-
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
page number: Cat. no. 188
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Furlong, George J. "Austrian Gothic Art in Vienna," Burlington Magazine XLIX (1926).
page number: pp. 284-285, pl. II C
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Pächt, Otto. Os̈terreichische Tafelmalerei der Gotik. Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929.
page number: p. 27
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Baldass, Ludwig. "Der Meister des Grazer Dombildes und Seine Kunstgeschichtliche Stellung," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien n.s. IV (1930).
page number: p. 204
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Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1934.
page number: p. 21
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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. 199, pl XL
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Francis, Henry S. “An Austrian Primitive for the Holden Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 9 (1936).
page number: pp. 133, 135-8
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137796
Oettinger, Karl. Altdeutsche Maler der Ostmark. Wien: Anton Schroll, 1942.
page number: p. 26
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Fischer, Otto, "Konrad Laib," Pantheon XXXI (1943).
page number: p. 3
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 41
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n49
Baldass, Ludwig. Conrad Laib und die beiden Rueland Frueauf. Wien: A. Schroll, 1947.
page number: pp. 9, 64
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Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955).
page number: p. 6
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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. 454
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n83
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. 67
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n91
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. 67
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n91
Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .
page number: no. 1, p. 3
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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. 77
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n97
Laib, Conrad, and Arthur Saliger. Conrad Laib. Wien: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 1997.
page number: p. 36
url:
Köllermann, Antje-Fee. Conrad Laib: ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2007.
page number: p. 113, fig. 142
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IMAGES
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full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.18/1936.18_full.tif