Virgin and Child

German Sculptor, Johann Göschel (cast maker)

Artist: German Sculptor

Johann Göschel
(cast maker)
Nürnberg
Dated: second half of the 15th century (original), 1907 (cast)
Classification: sculpture, plaster cast
Medium: plaster cast
Dimensions: 129 × 44 × 40 cm
Inv.no.: Rg.29
Department: Sculptures - Plaster casts
Current Location of the Original Artwork: Germany, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Location: National Museum Conservation and Storage Centre (Budapest), Building A, Ground Floor. European Architectural Sculpture. Selection from the Cast Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts. Visible Storage

The full-figure statue recalls the so-called Beautiful Madonna-type of the Virgin Mary and was built in the corner of a building functioned as a guest house from 1685. This corner house (built in the fifteenth century) was part of the so-called Rotes Roß hostel, on the Weinmarkt square, in Nuremberg. The cast formed part of the gift given to the museum in 1907 by Elsa Göschel from Nuremberg, who married the Hungarian Gábor Durkó and moved to Budapest. The cast was made by Elsa Göschel’s father, Johann, a stone carver and cast maker in the German city. The copy was exhibited in the Romanesque Hall. Between 1982 and 2013 it has been deposited in the Institute for the Blind, in Budapest.