The Death of the Virgin

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer (d. 1894), Berlin [see von Bode 1897, no. 31]; by descent to his widow, Julia Hainauer; sold with rest of collection to Duveen, London, in 1906 [see Paul, 1993, p. 52]. P. W. French & Co., New York, by 1919; sold to Kate Buckingham (d. 1937), Chicago [according to note in Registrar's files]; given to the museum in 1919.

Publications

Wilhelm Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin,1897), pp. 13, 65, no. 31. Christoph Martin Vogtherr, “Ein neuer Fund zu Hans Klockers Altar aus St. Leonhard,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 45 (1991), pp. 171-77, figs. 1 and 2. Barbara Paul, "Das Kollektionieren ist die edelste aller Leidenschaften!: Wilhelm von Bode und das Verhaltnis zwischen Museum, Kunsthandel und Privatsammlertum," Kritische Berichte 21,3 (1993), p. 53, fig. 8. D[onald] L. E[hresmann] in Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America: II. The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, 2001), pp. 2-3, no. 1, ill. Ulrich Söding, "Gotische Skulptur" in Kunst in Tirol, vol. 1, Von den Anfängen bis zur Renaissance, ed. Paul Naredi-Rainer and Lukas Madersbacher (Innsbruck, Vienna and Bolzano, 2007), p. 252, under no. 162. Matthias Weniger, “Notizen zu Hans Klocker” in Nicht die Bibliothek, sondern das Auge. Westeuropäische Skulptur und Malerei an der Wende zur Neuzeit. Beiträge zu Ehren von Hartmut Krohm (Petersberg, 2008), pp. 47, 48, 54, n. 28.

Quick Overview

Artist: Hans Klocker (Austrian, active c. 1478–1498)
Date: 1486–90
Medium: Wood with polychromy and gilding
Dimensions: 164.5 × 130.8 × 11.4 cm (64 3/4 × 51 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: relief
Style: 15th century
Place: Austria
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
Accession no.: 1919.875

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.