Tomb of count Ulrich von Ebersberg and his wife, Richardis von Kärnten

The red marble tomb of Count Ulrich von Ebersberg (ca. 960 – 1029) and his wife, Richardis von Kärnten (ca. 944 – 1013), the founders of the abbey at Ebersberg, was made in the late fifteenth century by Wolfgang Leb, known as a painter and a sculptor, on commission from the Abbot Sebastian Häfele. The cover of the ornamental tomb, erected near the entrance to the church, depicts the married couple, i.e., the donors, as they offer a model of the church to the Virgin. Next to them are Saint Sebastian and Saint Benedict, and below them is the figure of the commissioner, Abbot Häfele. The side walls are decorated with reliefs with the busts and coats of arms of the counts of Ebersberg, while the pedestal of the tomb features six sitting and reading sculptural figures: abbots and monks. The sculptor signed his work on the left side of the cover, at the bottom: “W. Leb maister des vercks.” The foundry of Kreittmayr assigned numbers on the casts to make it easier to assemble the copy in Budapest in 1909; however, the order of the side walls reliefs differs from the original monument’s arrangement. The hundred years old plaster cast exhibited here follows this historical arrangement.