Margrave tablet
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| Margrave tablet |
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| Hans Baldung , 1509/10 |
| 64 × 216 cm |
| State Art Gallery , Karlsruhe |
When Margrave board a large format is votive picture of Hans Baldung called, which was built around 1509/10 and including the founders of the image, Margrave Christoph I of Baden , shows. It is one of the art-historical and historically outstanding works of the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle and bears inventory number 88, going back to the inventory of Karl Koelitz.
iconography
64 centimeters high and 216 centimeters wide, it has an unusual format. It is not known for what place and purpose it was originally intended.
In the middle, Anna herself is shown third . On the men's side (on the left as seen by the observer), the client, Margrave Christoph I of Baden (1453–1527) with nine sons kneels in prayer. On the women's side you can see his wife Ottilie von Katzenelnbogen (presumably 1451–1517) with five daughters.
The Karlsruhe archivist Konrad Krimm presented a political interpretation of the picture in 1990. The arrangement of the sons preferred - according to the will of the margrave of 1503 - the sixth-born, who was the second oldest of the secular sons, who was intended to be the sole heir. However, Christoph was unable to enforce this succession plan.
Ownership history
The unsigned picture was first attributed to Hans Baldung in the 1847 catalog of the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle. This allows a dating to 1509/1510, which is so far undisputed. The earliest news of the existence of the panel comes from an inventory from 1691, which lists the painting that was moved to Basel . In 1789 the panel returned from Basel and was taken to the picture gallery in Karlsruhe. Grand Duke Leopold (1811-1852) temporarily made the picture available as an antependium for the newly designed prince chapel of the Lichtental monastery near Baden-Baden. But there it was replaced by a copy in 1833. The original has since been in the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
As the property of the former grand ducal house, the panel was bought by the state of Baden in 1930 after the Minister of Education, Adam Remmele, vehemently advocated securing the splendid piece for the country. In the course of the negotiations, Berthold Margrave of Baden expressly granted the state the Margrave tablet in a handwritten letter:
- "Karlsruhe, 18.II.1930.
- Dear Count Douglas.
- Upon your renewed presentation, the Grand Ducal House of Baden is ready to forego the votive picture by Hans Baldung (Grien) in favor of the Baden state.
- I hope this clears the last cliff out of the way.
- With best regards, I am, dear Count,
- Your always devoted Margrave Berthold. "
The purchase by the state was forgotten; in recent years the Kunsthalle has considered the top work to be owned by the House of Baden. As such, it was shown at the “Treasury of Germany” exhibition on art in private aristocratic ownership in Munich in 2004/05 . After Prime Minister Günther Oettinger referred to the margrave plaque as the clear property of the former ruling family in the context of the Karlsruhe cultural property affair in 2006, the Freiburg historian Dieter Mertens managed to provide evidence in a scoop in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on November 2, 2006 using Karlsruhe files that the votive tablet has belonged to the state of Baden since 1930. The Prime Minister, who was already struck by the plans to sell the manuscripts, was ridiculed in the press.
A replica by the House of Baden that confused the Baldung factory (Koelitz No. 88) with an alleged small Baldung picture that had already been given to the House of Baden in 1930, which also shows Margrave Christoph (Koelitz No. 87), could not succeed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 235/40264, published by Mertens in the FAZ (November 2, 2006)
