id: 130553 accession number: 1953.286 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.286 updated: 2023-08-23 21:05:39.867000 Christ at the Column, 1756. Johann Baptist Hagenauer (Austrian, 1732–1810). Gilt bronze; overall: 19.6 x 10.2 x 11.3 cm (7 11/16 x 4 x 4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1953.286 title: Christ at the Column title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1756 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1756 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Austria, 18th century technique: gilt bronze department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Johann Baptist Hagenauer (Austrian, 1732–1810) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 19.6 x 10.2 x 11.3 cm (7 11/16 x 4 x 4 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: at base of stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Baroque Sculpture opening date: 1965-03-07T05:00:00 Baroque Sculpture. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (organizer) (March 7-27, 1965). title: Central Europe: 1600-1800 opening date: 1972-01-27T05:00:00 Central Europe: 1600-1800. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (organizer) (January 27-February 27, 1972). title: Georg Raphael Donner opening date: 1993-05-01T04:00:00 Georg Raphael Donner. Osterreichische Galeri, Vienna, Austria (organizer) (May 1-August 1, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Darmstadt, Germany, Deutsches Barock und Rokoko, 1914, vol. I, p. L, vol. II, pl. 1126. * Vienna, Schönbrunn, Maria-Theresia Ausstellung, 1930, p. 156, no. 8, illus. (date incorrectly cited as "1786"). * Paris, France, Musée du Jeu de Paume, 1937, Exposition d'Art Autrichien, 1937, cat. no. 104, illus. pl. 21. * Zurich, Austria, Kunsthaus, Osterreichische Kunst, 1937, no. 129. * Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum, Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Sonderausstellung, Privat-sammlung <Dr. E. Delmar>,"1939-40, cat. no. 13, pl. 13. * Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Museum of Art, German and Austrian Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century, October 15 to November 30, 1955. cat. no.5. * Kansas City, MO, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, The Century of Mozart, Jan. 15 to Mar. 4, 1956. cat. no.51. * Baltimore, MD, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Age of Elegance: Rococo and its Effect, April 25 to June 14, 1959. no. 285 in catalog; repr. p. 74. * Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, October 29- December 15, 1991: "Art in the Age of Mozart," --- PROVENANCE Emil Delmar [1876-1959], Budapest, Hungary, sold to R. Stora and Company date: 1913-52 footnotes: citations: (R. Stora and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1952-53 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: With the energy of the imbalanced composition, Hagenauer emphasizes this heightened moment of the Passion of Christ. digital description: Considered to be one of the masterpieces of his youth, Hagenauer cast this bronze while a student at the Vienna Academy, where he studied between 1754 and 1759. The authorship and date is verified by an inscription found at the base of the stake: IOANNES HAGENAUER SALISBURGENSIS INVENIT ED FECIT 1756. This signature appears on several of Hagenauer's early works. wall description: With the energy of the imbalanced composition, Hagenauer emphasizes this heightened moment of the Passion of Christ. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hans Friedeberger, "Die Jahrhundertausstellung deutscher Kunst 1650-1800, Darmstadt 1914, Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, VIII (1913) page number: 305, figure 25. url: Biermann, Georg. Deutsches Barock und Rokoko. Leipzig: E.E. Schwabach, 1914. page number: p. 656 no.1126, repr; listed p. LXXVI. url: Georg Sobotka, "Johann Baptist Hagenauer," Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Institutes, Wien, XIV (1920) page number: 4-6, figures 3, 34 url: Tietze-Conrat, E. Österreichische barockplastik. Wien: A. Schroll & Co., g. m. b. h, 1920. page number: p. 31, pl. 87 url: "Hagenauer," Thieme-Becker, vol. XV, (1922) page number: 466 url: Planiscig, Leo. Die Bronzeplastiken: Statuetten, Reliefs, Geräte und Plaketten : Katalog mit den Abb. sämtlicher Stücke. 1924 page number: cat. no. 378. url: Stix, Alfred. Exposition d'art autrichien: mai-juin, 1937. Paris: Braun, 1937. page number: p. 21, plate 21, cat. no.104 url: Kunstmuseum Bern. Kunst und Kunstgewerbe: Sonderausstellung 1939/40. [Bern]: Kunstmuseum, 1940. page number: #13, listed and repr. url: Feulner, Adolf, and Theodor Müller. Geschichte der deutschen Plastik. München: F. Bruckmann, 1953. page number: vol. II, 593-94, figure 487 url: W. M. Milliken, "'Christ at the Column' by Hagenauer," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, XLI (March 1954), Cleveland, Ohio page number: p.48, 53, p. 49 repr. url: Edward A. Maser, "A Monument for a Patron of Mozart," University of Kansas. The Register of the Museum of Art (January 1956) page number: 67, n. 7 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. 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Emil Delmar and His Collection" In Hungary in context: studies on art and architecture, edited by Anna Tüskés, Áron Tóth, Miklós Székely, pp. 239-251. Budapest: CentrArt, 2013. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 247-248 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.286/1953.286_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.286/1953.286_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.286/1953.286_full.tif