Christ on the Living Cross

1. Possibly Georg Hammels, Aachen [Georg Hammels Aachen is inscribed three times on the reverse]. Dr. Lersch, Aachen, by 1895 [according to Firmenich-Richartz 1895]. Prof. P. Stolz, Bad Kissingen, by 1927; sold to Galerie Heinemann, Munich, 5 February 1927 [according to Heinemann stockcard, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, Sept. 18, 1928 [Copy of invoice in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1936.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 4.
• AIC, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).
• Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Religious Art from the Fourth Century to the Present Time, 1930, no. 32.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 29.
• Cologne, Museum Schnütgen, Glanz und Größe des Mittelalters: Kölner Meisterwerke aus den großen Sammlungen der Welt, November 4, 2011-Febuary 26, 2012, no. 204.
• Nijmegen, Netherlands, Museum Het Valkhof, Mary of Guelders and her Prayer Book, October 12, 2018-January 7, 2019, cat. 81.

• Eduard Firmenich-Richartz, “Wilhelm von Herle und Hermann Wynrich von Wesel: Eine Studie zur Geschichte der altkölnisch-en Malerschule,” Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst 8 (1895), cols. 302–03.
• Carl Aldenhoven, Geschichte der Kölner Malerschule, Lübeck, 1902, pp. 90–91, 384, pl. 25.
• Heinrich Bergner, Handbuch der kirchlichen Kunstaltertümer in Deutschland, Leipzig, 1905, p. 520.
• Andreas Huppertz, Die altkölnische Malerschule, Munich, 1914, p. 21, fig. 27.
• Karl Schaefer, Geschichte der Kölner Maler-schule, Lübeck, 1923, p. 25, pl. 25.
• Hubert Wilm, “Sammler und Markt,” Der Cicerone 20 (1928), pp. 350–51 (ill.).
• Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, p. 192, no. 1096.28.
• Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 23, no. 3.
• Alfred Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, Berlin, vol. 3, 1938, p. 56.
• Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, pp. 32–33, no. 28, pl. 20.
• Otto Pächt, “Panofsky’s ‘Early Netherlandish Painting’—II,” Burlington Magazine 98 (1956), p. 271, fig. 16.

The Annunciation

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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin

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Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist

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The Sudarium of Saint Veronica

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Joseph Sold by his Brothers

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Portrait of an Artist

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Peasant Family at a Well

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Bishop at Mass in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choirbook

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