Warrioir Holding a Coat of Arms

Stone relief from the Castle of Veldenstien (near Nuremberg), representing an armoured warrior, holding a coat of arms in his hand. According to the archived documents, the plaster cast was made after the original one, due to the then-owner of the castle, Hermann von Epstein’s special permission. The cast formed part of the gift given to the museum in 1907 by Elsa Göschel from Nuremberg, who married to 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 and worked on the renovation of the Castle of Veldenstein from 1897. The copy was exhibited in the Romanesque Hall. In 1923, it was transferred from the Museum of Fine Arts to the University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, as a deposit. From 1994 the cast was used as wall decoration at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. In 2016 the relief was transported back to the collection of the museum.