Lot No. 91


Gabriel Hornstain


(Germany c. 1640) The Crowning with Thorns, signed and dated Ga: Hornstain Ao: 1639, pen and black ink, grey wash, on paper, 25 x 19.3 cm, watermark: escutcheon, slightly browned, minutely stained, unmounted, unframed, (Sch)

Literature: E. Bock, Zeichnungen Deutscher Meister im engravingkabinett zu Berlin, Berlin 1921, p. 194, no. 10 258; Bremen, Kunsthalle and Zürich, Kunsthaus, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, 1967, cat. no. 9. As Werner Sumowski pointed out in the exhibition catalogue of 1967, a series of twelve drawings with depictions of the Passion of Christ and an Adoration of the Shepherds in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, which Heinrich Geissler and Friedrich Thöne attributed to the German artist Gabriel Hornstain, bear the same monogram. Nothing is known about the career of this artist, except for his activity in Germany in the mid-17th century. A drawing of the 12-year-old- Christ in the temple listed In the 1921 catalogue of works of the Kupferstichkabinett In Berlin is comparably signed and dated Gabriel Hornstain Ao 1639 (E. Bock 1921, p. 194, 10 258). The framing of the scene in the shape of a quatrefoil may indicate that the work was intended for a stained glass window or probably a small fresco painting. The semicircular framing lines of the two present designs (see also below) might also point to a fresco or stained glass window.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at

02.06.2010 - 18:00

Estimate:
EUR 1,500.- to EUR 2,000.-

Gabriel Hornstain


(Germany c. 1640) The Crowning with Thorns, signed and dated Ga: Hornstain Ao: 1639, pen and black ink, grey wash, on paper, 25 x 19.3 cm, watermark: escutcheon, slightly browned, minutely stained, unmounted, unframed, (Sch)

Literature: E. Bock, Zeichnungen Deutscher Meister im engravingkabinett zu Berlin, Berlin 1921, p. 194, no. 10 258; Bremen, Kunsthalle and Zürich, Kunsthaus, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, 1967, cat. no. 9. As Werner Sumowski pointed out in the exhibition catalogue of 1967, a series of twelve drawings with depictions of the Passion of Christ and an Adoration of the Shepherds in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, which Heinrich Geissler and Friedrich Thöne attributed to the German artist Gabriel Hornstain, bear the same monogram. Nothing is known about the career of this artist, except for his activity in Germany in the mid-17th century. A drawing of the 12-year-old- Christ in the temple listed In the 1921 catalogue of works of the Kupferstichkabinett In Berlin is comparably signed and dated Gabriel Hornstain Ao 1639 (E. Bock 1921, p. 194, 10 258). The framing of the scene in the shape of a quatrefoil may indicate that the work was intended for a stained glass window or probably a small fresco painting. The semicircular framing lines of the two present designs (see also below) might also point to a fresco or stained glass window.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 02.06.2010 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 27.05. - 02.06.2010