id: 128838 accession number: 1951.453 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.453 updated: 2023-04-06 11:11:42.167000 Altarpiece with The Passion of Christ, c. 1440s. Master of the Schlägl Altarpiece (German). Oil and gold on wood; framed: 88.9 x 157.5 x 8.3 cm (35 x 62 x 3 1/4 in.); unframed: 74.3 x 69.8 cm (29 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.); part 1: 84.9 x 81.4 x 8.3 cm (33 7/16 x 32 1/16 x 3 1/4 in.); part 2: 84.6 x 152.2 x 8.3 cm (33 5/16 x 59 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.); part 3: 84.6 x 78.7 x 8.3 cm (33 5/16 x 31 x 3 1/4 in.); panel: 36.2 x 35 cm (14 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1951.453 title: Altarpiece with The Passion of Christ title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1440s creation date earliest: 1440 creation date latest: 1449 current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 15th century technique: oil and gold on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of the Schlägl Altarpiece (German) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 88.9 x 157.5 x 8.3 cm (35 x 62 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 74.3 x 69.8 cm (29 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.); Part 1: 84.9 x 81.4 x 8.3 cm (33 7/16 x 32 1/16 x 3 1/4 in.); Part 2: 84.6 x 152.2 x 8.3 cm (33 5/16 x 59 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.); Part 3: 84.6 x 78.7 x 8.3 cm (33 5/16 x 31 x 3 1/4 in.); Panel: 36.2 x 35 cm (14 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Westfälische Maler der Spätgotik 1440-1490, Landesmuseum, Munster, German (June 20 - September30, 1952). --- PROVENANCE Schlägl Abbey, Austria date: -1930s footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In 2012 the museum's conservation department created a new frame that was stylistically more appropriate for this altarpiece. digital description: wall description: The visual focus of this altarpiece is the suffering and death of Christ on the cross. So-called Passion cycles in art include the events leading up to and following the Crucifixion, not only as single subjects but as scenes meant to be read in sequence. Passion cycles were promoted by the two great teaching orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, for whom this subject represented the main religious drama of their churches, and also by the German mystics who advocated private contemplation on the humanity and suffering of Christ. The original context for this altarpiece remains unknown, but it was probably made for a religious institution in Westphalia in the Rhine Valley. During the 1870s it was given to the Abbey of Schlägl, near Linz in Upper Austria, from which both altarpiece and artist take their names. The altarpiece is not preserved today in its original format, and some of the individual scenes are missing. Scholars continue to debate the original number of scenes and their sequencing; nine of the original panels have survived. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tietze, Hans "Ein Passionszyklus im Stift Schlägl," Jahrbuch des kunsthistorischen Instituts der Zentralkommission für Denkmalpflege VII (1913). page number: pp. 173-81, 187 url: Heise, Carl Georg. Norddeutsche malerei: Studien zur ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte im 15. [i.e. fünfzehnten] Jahrhundert von Köln bis Hamburg. Leipzig: K. Wolff, 1918. page number: pp. 68-69, fig. 62 url: Hugelschofer, Walter "Der Hochaltar von 1457 des Klosters Marienfeld in Westfalen," Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst n.s. XXXVI (1926-1927). page number: p. 184 url: Hainisch, Erwin "Schlagl, 2 in Georg Dehio," Hanbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmaler II: Osterreich (Vienna and Berlin, 1935). page number: p. 584 url: Sommer, Johannes "Johann Koerbecke, der Meister des Marienfelder Altares von 1457," Westfalen XVI (1937). page number: p. 42 url: Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik 3. München u.a: Dt. Kunstverl, 1938. page number: figs. 273-74 url: Busch, Harald. Meister des Nordens; die Altniederdeutsche Malerei, 1450-1550. Hamburg: Ellermann, 1943. page number: p. 66 url: Rensing, Theodor "Der Meister von Schoppingen," Westfallen, XXVII (1948). page number: pp. 224, 240-241 url: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart Bd. 37. Bd. 37. 1950. page number: pp. 301-02 url: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, and Paul Pieper. Westfälische Maler der Spätgotik 1440-1490: [Ausstellung] Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster Westfalen, 20. Juni-30. September 1952. Münster: Das Museum, 1952. page number: cat nos. 76-84 url: Francis, Henry S. “The Schlaegl Altarpiece.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 8 (1952). page number: pp. 210-211 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141826 Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik: Bd 6 Nordwestdeutschland in der Zeit von 1450 bis 1515. Munchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1954. page number: pp. 75-6 url: Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American-German Review XXI/2 (1954-55). page number: p. 7 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. 455 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n83 Rensing, Theodor. Der Meister von Schöppingen. [München]: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959. page number: p. 36-37 url: 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 Stange, Alfred. Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. (München): Bruckmann, 1967. page number: p. 178, no. 579 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. 67 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n91 Puttfarken, Thomas. Meister Francke und die Kunst um 1400. Ausstellung zur Jahrhundert-Feier der Hamburger Kunsthalle, 30. Aug. bis 19. Okt. 1969. (Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1969. page number: pp. 37-38 url: Musper, H. Theodor. Altdeutsche Malerei. [Köln]: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. page number: p. 49-50, repr. no. 39 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . page number: pp. 31-33, color plate VIII, cat no. 11 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. 75 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n95 Bologna, Ferdinando. Napoli e le rotte mediterranee della pittura: da Alfonso il Magnanimo a Ferdinando il Cattolico. Napoli: Società napoletana di storia patria, 1978. page number: figs. 47-49 url: Schlagler gemaldekatalog: geschichte der schlager gemaldesammlung und bildergalerie, verzeichnis der vorhandenen gemalde. [LINZ, AUSTRIA]: [STIFT SCHLAGL], 1987. page number: pp. 49-51 url: Mellinkoff, Ruth. Outcasts: Signs of Otherness in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. page number: vol 2, pl. IX.24 url: Brunet, Jacqueline, Gennaro Toscano, and Sylvie Béguin. Les Granvelle et l'Italie au XVIe siècle: le mécénat d'une famille : actes du colloque international. Besançon: Cêtre, 1996. page number: p. 32-33, repr. fig. 9, p. 35 url: Be, Kenneth, "The Case of the Altered Altarpiece", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 03, March 2004 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: cover, p. 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-03/page/n3 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 88, p. 238-9 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 256, repr. p. 257-59, no. 96 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. page number: p. 84, fig. 65 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 47 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.453/1951.453_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.453/1951.453_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.453/1951.453_full.tif