Pleurant statue

German Sculptor, Johann Göschel (cast maker)
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Artist
German Sculptor


Johann Göschel
(cast maker)
Nürnberg
Dated
ca. 1356 (original), 1907 (cast)
Classification
sculpture, plaster cast
Medium
plaster cast
Dimensions
67.5 × 33 × 19 cm
Inv.no.
Rg.33
Department
Sculptures - Plaster casts
Current Location of the Original Artwork
Germany, Nuremberg, Holy Spirit Hospital
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

Konrad Gross (ca. 1280 – 1356) was a wealthy resident of Nuremberg and a member of the town council. After his death in Bamberg in 1356, his tomb was erected in the church of Heilig-Geist-Spital (Holy Spirit Hospital) in Nuremberg, which he founded, and now it can be seen in the cloister of the hospital building. The lying figure of the deceased is surrounded by pleurants (eight mourning figures) in contemporary attire, bearing the red marble slab covering the tomb. The master was presumably one of the decorative sculptors who also worked on the west façade of Saint Laurence Church in Nuremberg. Plaster casts were not made of the entire table monument, but only of some of its mourning figures.