Otzdorf Madonna
The Otzdorfer Madonna is a 12th century Madonna sculpture carved from linden wood and part of the Dresden sculpture collection . It is one of the oldest surviving wooden sculptures in Saxony.
description
Mary is represented as the queen of heaven , with a scepter and a book. The Christ child sits on her lap .
The figure, which is around 55 cm high, 17 cm wide and 15 cm deep, appears as a block-like self-contained, hollow spaces and deep hollows on the outside were largely avoided during the sculpting so that the light does not dissolve the cubic unity. The folds of the garment are supple and layered flat on the plastic core. Only the head of the baby Jesus sitting on her lap and the right hand of the Blessed Mother (both inserts) are detached from the composition.
Adhering paint residues indicate that the figure - unlike other sculptures created at the same time - was not gilded, but painted.
history
The creation of the figure is dated between 1160 and 1180. It comes from the church in Otzdorf (today part of the town of Roßwein ) near Döbeln , where it was moved to the attic of the church after a church renovation in 1713 and was forgotten there. At the beginning of the 20th century the sculpture was rediscovered and in the 1960s it was in a small museum of medieval sculpture on the Albrechtsburg in Meißen. It has been exhibited in the Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz since 2009 , a copy was placed in the Otzdorf church in 2002.
literature
- Christian Rietschel, Bernd Langhof: Village churches in Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1963, p. 140.
Web links
- Madonna from Otzdorf on the website of the Dresden State Art Collections , accessed on November 17, 2015.
- History of the Otzdorf Church on the website of Ev.-Luth. Knobelsdorf-Otzdorf parish, accessed on November 17, 2015.