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Adoration of the Magi

Adoration of the Magi

early 1440s
(German)
Germany, born Ensingen, active Austria, 15th century
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.)
Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1936.18
Location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic

Did You Know?

A companion piece to this one is in the Freising Seminary in Germany and depicts the Nativity.

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.
  • 1926
    E. Proehl, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    (A. S. Drey, Munich, Germnay and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1936-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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. Cat. no. 188
    Furlong, George J. "Austrian Gothic Art in Vienna," Burlington Magazine XLIX (1926). pp. 284-285, pl. II C
    Pächt, Otto. Os̈terreichische Tafelmalerei der Gotik. Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929. p. 27
    Baldass, Ludwig. "Der Meister des Grazer Dombildes und Seine Kunstgeschichtliche Stellung," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien n.s. IV (1930). p. 204
    Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1934. p. 21
    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. cat. no. 199, pl XL
    Francis, Henry S. “An Austrian Primitive for the Holden Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 9 (1936). pp. 133, 135-8 www.jstor.org
    Oettinger, Karl. Altdeutsche Maler der Ostmark. Wien: Anton Schroll, 1942. p. 26
    Fischer, Otto, "Konrad Laib," Pantheon XXXI (1943). p. 3
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 41 archive.org
    Baldass, Ludwig. Conrad Laib und die beiden Rueland Frueauf. Wien: A. Schroll, 1947. pp. 9, 64
    Francis, Henry S. "Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art," American German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955). p. 6
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 454 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 67 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 67 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. . no. 1, p. 3
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 77 archive.org
    Laib, Conrad, and Arthur Saliger. Conrad Laib. Wien: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, 1997. p. 36
    Köllermann, Antje-Fee. Conrad Laib: ein spätgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 2007. p. 113, fig. 142
  • The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
    Five Centuries of German Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12-December 13, 1936).
    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).
    Gotik in Osterreich, Osterreichisches Museum fur Kins und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (September 15-November 8, 1926).
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