id: 115394 accession number: 1936.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.18 updated: 2022-10-28 21:27:07.551000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Germany, born Ensingen, active Austria, 15th century technique: oil on panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Konrad Laib (German) - artist --- 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.) 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Gotik in Osterreich, Osterreichisches Museum fur Kins und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (September 15-November 8, 1926). --- PROVENANCE E. Proehl, Amsterdam, Netherlands date: 1926 footnotes: citations: (A. S. Drey, Munich, Germnay and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1936- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: A companion piece to this one is in the Freising Seminary in Germany and depicts the Nativity. digital description: wall 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: Furlong, George J. "Austrian Gothic Art in Vienna," Burlington Magazine XLIX (1926). page number: pp. 284-285, pl. II C url: Pächt, Otto. Os̈terreichische Tafelmalerei der Gotik. Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929. page number: p. 27 url: 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 url: Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1934. page number: p. 21 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. 199, pl XL url: 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 url: Fischer, Otto, "Konrad Laib," Pantheon XXXI (1943). page number: p. 3 url: 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 url: Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955). page number: p. 6 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. 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 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. 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.18/1936.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.18/1936.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.18/1936.18_full.tif