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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME WOOD RELIEF OF THE ANNUNCIATION
A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME WOOD RELIEF OF THE ANNUNCIATION
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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME WOOD RELIEF OF THE ANNUNCIATION

ATTRIBUTED TO DANIEL MAUCH (1477-1540), ULM, CIRCA 1510

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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME WOOD RELIEF OF THE ANNUNCIATION
ATTRIBUTED TO DANIEL MAUCH (1477-1540), ULM, CIRCA 1510
on a red velvet covered wood plinth
36 ¼ in. (92.2 cm.) high; 40 ¾ in. (103.7 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Kunsthandlung Lämmle, Munich, by 1927.
Seized by the Gestapo on 23 November 1938 from Siegfried Lämmle in Munich (Martiusstrasse I / IV).
Acquired by the Bavarian National Museum (inv 41/25) in 1941.
Restituted to the estate of Siegfried Lämmle on 07 October 1950.
with Henri Heilbronner, Lucerne, where acquired.

Literature
G. Otto, Die Ulmer Plastik der Spätgotik, Reutlingen, 1927, ill. 340 and 341, p. 299.
Andrea Baresel-Brand (ed.), ‘Entehrt, ausgeplündert, arisiert: Entrechtung und Enteignung der Juden’, Veröffentlichungen der Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste, Vol. 3, Magdeburg 2005, pp. 291-308.


COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
M. Baxandall, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, New Haven and London, 1980, pp. 23-24, pl. 81-83.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Sculptures allemandes de la fin du Moyen Age dans les collections publiques françaises, 1400-1530, 22 Oct.1991- 20 Jan. 1992, S. Guillot de Suduiraut ed., Paris, 1991, pp. 215-217.
Göppingen, Museum Göppingen, Gotik an Fils und Lauter, 10 Sept. - 2 Nov. 1986, W. Ziegler and K.H. Ruess eds., 1986, nos. 52-53 and 65.
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We would like to thank the Bavarian National Museum for providing the following information on the present lot:
The present lot was seized on 23 November 1938 by the Gestapo from Siegfried Lämmle in Munich (Martiusstrasse I / IV). In 1941 it was purchased by the Bavarian National Museum (inv 41/25). It was restituted to the estate of Siegfried Lämmle on 07 October 1950 and sold through Henri Heilbronner in Lucerne to the family of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Mauch was the finest master of his generation working in Ulm. Baxandall described his style as ‘an irresistible hybrid of Ulm and Italy…the whole performance is one of extraordinary sophistication and poise, brought off through a precise sense of scale and surface’ (Baxandall, op. cit., p. 23). This is articulated in the present work in the artist’s careful use of the reflective property of the smooth wood, creating harmony with the differential of textures, and in the Italianate elegance of the Virgin’s features.
Mauch’s earliest authenticated work, an altar depicting the Holy Family in the Chapel at Bieselbach of 1510, compares closely to the present Annunciation, particularly in the figure of Zebedee on the proper left wing of the altar. The Virgin’s sweet and graceful face, slightly tilted and with the hint of a smile, is seen in a number of the artist’s finest works, such as in the altar at the Stadtkirche Geislingen and in the limewood Madonna in the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

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