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Portrait of Leonhard Fuchs
German · 1525
Provenance
Ownership history
- Baron Eugen von Kohner, Budapest [information supplied by Heinemann in a note of November 27, 1928 in curatorial file].Galerie Heinemann, Mu-nich, by 1928; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [lent by him to New York 1928]; given to the AIC, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 43, as Hans Maler zu Schwaz, Portrait of a Courtier of the Welser Family.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29, as Hans Maler zu Schwaz (no cat.).
Literature
Published references
- “Early German Exhibition at Kleinberger’s,” Art News 27, 6 (1928), p. 5.
- 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, 1931, p. 192, no. 1098.28.
- Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 65, no. 270.
- Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 41, no. 37.
- Werner Fleischhauer, “Ein Jugendbildnis von Leonhard Fuchs,” Heimatkundliche Blätter für den Kreis Tübingen (Oct. 1950), n.pag. (ill.).
- R. Rau, “Zur Lebensgeschichte des Dr. Leonhard Fuchs und seiner Familie,” Tübinger Blätter 38 (1951), p. 45 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 176.
- Werner Fleischhauer, “Ein unbekanntes Bild-nis der Tübinger Botaniker Fuchs—vermutlich von Jörg Ziegler,” Tübinger Forschungen 7 (Apr. 5, 1962), n.pag.
- Werner Fleischhau-er, Renaissance im Herzogtum Württemberg, Stuttgart, 1971, p. 156.
- M[onika] Ko[pplin], in Die Renaissance im deutschen Süd-westen zwischen Reformation und Dreißigjährigem Krieg, exh. cat., Heidelberger Schloss, 1986, p. 181, under no. C 14.
- Angelica Dülberg, Privatporträts: Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1990, pp. 24, 88, 109, 112, 206, no. 107, figs. 489–90.
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