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accession number: 1971.65
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Orpheus and Cerberus, c. 1765. Ferdinand Tietz (Austrian, 1708–1777). Sandstone ; with base: 304.8 cm (120 in.); base: 38.1 x 102.9 x 102.9 cm (15 x 40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.); without base: 182.9 x 106.7 x 61 cm (72 x 42 x 24 in.); pedestal: 89.5 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm (35 1/4 x 35 x 35 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1971.65
title: Orpheus and Cerberus
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creation date: c. 1765
creation date earliest: 1760
creation date latest: 1770
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Germany, near Bamberg, 18th century
technique: sandstone
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Ferdinand Tietz (Austrian, 1708–1777) - artist
Austrian sculptor, baptized 1708, died 1777, active in Germany
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measurements: with base: 304.8 cm (120 in.); Base: 38.1 x 102.9 x 102.9 cm (15 x 40 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.); without base: 182.9 x 106.7 x 61 cm (72 x 42 x 24 in.); Pedestal: 89.5 x 88.9 x 88.9 cm (35 1/4 x 35 x 35 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1971
opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
commissioned by Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1708–1779), Prince Bishop of Bamberg
date: after 1757 -
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Garden of Schloss Seehof, near Bamberg (Germany)
date: - at least 1965
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(Dr. Kurt Rossacher, Salzburg, by whom sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: - 1971
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Margarete Kämpf, "Das fürstbischöfliche Schloss Seehof bei Bamberg," Bericht des Historischen Vereins Bamberg, nos. 93-94 (1956).
page number: Mentioned: pp. 153, 156
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Erich Herzog, "Verlorene Figuren von Ferdinand Tietz aus dem Park von Schloss Seehof," Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst 9 (1959), 234-246
page number: Mentioned: p. 235
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Klaus Merten, "Schloss und Garten Seehof, Zwischenbilanz einer Liquidation," Maltechnik-Restauro 2 (1972).
page number: Mentioned: p. 128
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"Year in Review 1971," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59 (January 1972), p. 40, no. 14, repr. p. 11.
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"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (February 1972)
page number: Reproduced: p. 96, fig. 339
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A. Beverly Barksdale, "Some Musical Sidelights of Tietz's Orpheus," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LIX (September 1972), 212-215
page number: Mentioned: pp. 212-14, reproduced: figs 4, 5
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152441
Henry Hawley, "Three Works by Ferdinand Tietz from Schloss Seehof," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LIX (September 1972), 204-211
page number: Mentioned: pp. 207-211; Reproduced: pp. 208, 210, 213, 214.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152439
"Museum Accessions," The Magazine Antiques, 103, no. 5 (May 1973), repr. p. 866.
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Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 167
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n187
Lindemann, Bernd Wolfgang. "Ferdinand Tietz: Probleme des kleinplastischen Werks," Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins Für Kunstwissenschaft 37, Heft 1/4 (1983), 73-108
page number: Mentioned: pp. 82, 84; Reproduced: p. 85
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Lindemann, Bernd Wolfgang. Ferdinand Tietz, 1708-1777: Studien zu Werk, Stil und Ikonographie. Weissenhorn: A.H. Konrad, 1989.
page number: Mentio ned: pp. 321-322; Reproduced: p. 108, no. 105
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