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The Annunciation

Johann Koerbecke · Completed by 1457

Provenance

Ownership history

Cistercian abbey of Marienfeld, near Warendorf, Westphalia, from 1457 to 1809/1812 [the monastic community was dissolved in 1803, and the abbey church become a parish church; for the evidence that Koerbecke’s work remained at Marienfeld until 1809/12, see Karl Zuhorn, “Die Behandlung des Marienfelder Gemäldebestandes nach der Aufhe-bung der Abtei,” Westfälische Zeitschrift 103/04 (1954), pp. 194–202]. Baron Tollin de Rivarolles, Paris [according to Kleinberger stock card in the Department of European Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art]. Demotte Galleries, Paris and New York; sold to Kleinberger, New York, Nov. 29, 1922 [according to Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold to Martin Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, May 1923; on loan to the AIC from 1923; bequeathed to the AIC, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicgo, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 21.
Art Institute of Chicgo,, A Century of Prog-ress, 1934, no. 15.
Durlacher, New York, German Painting of the Fifteenth Century, no. 7.
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Westfälische Maler der Spät-gotik, 1440–1490, 1952, no. 52.
Art Institute of Chicgo, Glad Tidings of Great Joy, 1994–95 (no cat.)

Literature

Published references

Demotte of Paris, 8 East 57th Street, New York, n.d., n.pag. (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 160, no. 2050.
Rose Mary Fischkin, “Martin A. Ryerson Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, XIII to XVII Century, Loaned to The Art Institute of Chicago,” unpub. MS, 1926, Ryerson Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 123–25, no. 2050.
Walter Hugelshofer, “Der Hochaltar von 1457 des Klosters Marienfeld in Westfalen,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 60 (1926–27), pp. 179–83 (ill.).
M. Lippe, in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 21, 1927, p. 175.
Walter Hugelshofer, “Koerbecke und der Marienfelder Altar von 1457: Ein Beitrag zur westfälischen Malerei,” Der Cicerone 22 (1930), pp. 371–72, 376.
Joseph Girard, Le Musée d’Avignon, Musée Calvet, sculpture et peinture, Paris, 1931, p. 61.
Hildegard Zimmermann, “Die neueren Forschungen über die alt-westfälische Malerei II,” Westfalen 16 (1931), p. 56.
Theodor Rens-ing, “Ein Beitrag zur Koerbecke-Frage,” Westfalen 18 (1933), pp. 261, 262 (ill.), 264.
Daniel Catton Rich, “German Art in Chicago,” American-German Review 1, 4 (1935), p. 38.
Hans Tietze, Meisterwerke europäische Malerei in Amerika, Vienna, 1935, pp. 196 (ill.), 338, no. 196 (Eng. ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America, New York, 1939)
Karl Hölker, Kreis Warendorf, Bau und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen 42, Münster, 1936, p. 278, fig. 404.

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