Figurated Corbel

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


Johann Göschel
(cast maker)
Nürnberg
Dated
ca. 1420 (original), 1907 (cast)
Classification
sculpture, plaster cast
Medium
plaster cast
Dimensions
40 × 45 × 32 cm, 15 kg
Inv.no.
Rg.57
Department
Sculptures - Plaster casts
Current Location of the Original Artwork
Germany, Königsberg in Bayern, Saint Mary's Church
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 late Gothic church in Königsberg in Bavaria, dedicated to the Virgin, was built between 1397 and 1432. The building used as a Lutheran church since the Reformation has three naves. In the extension of the central nave, there is an apsis enclosed by five sides of an octagon. The buttresses supporting the exterior wall of the sanctuary were decorated with standing sculptures, of which only the Madonna statue on the east sanctuary wall, dated to 1420, has survived. The corbels once holding the sculptures are decorated with figural carving: the distorted human figures carved out of sandstone represent the Vices.