Sculpture of St. Catherine (Heilbronn)
The sculpture of St. Catherine in Heilbronn is a historical sandstone sculpture of St. Catherine of Alexandria , which is exhibited in the House of City History in Heilbronn.
description
The sandstone figure is 102 cm high with the base and was originally painted in color . The figure's crowned head was broken off, but was put back on. Only the circlet has survived from the crown, and there are still six parts of the ornamentation. The figure is identified as Catherine due to its saintly attributes : she holds a sword in both hands on a broken wheel. The sword and wheel were the saints' instruments of torture . The simple dress is belted and falls in parallel folds with narrow, almost sharp-edged heights and wide valleys. With her forearm she is holding her high-tucked coat, which falls in overhanging folds over her right knee.
The figure is of "simple execution" and has a "coarse, round face with a wide nose and small ears at eye level [and] small hands with thin fingers". The "schematic wavy lines" of the long hair that fall over the shoulders are also striking. The “schematic execution” and the creased folds over the right knee point to the sculptor who shaped the style of the workshop of the Schwaigener Marienaltar , probably the master HL . Gräf dates the figure to around 1515; in the Heilbronn City Archives it is dated to the 15th century.
The sculpture was probably once located in Heilbronn's Katharinenspital and came into the possession of Hans Clemens Coy in the 19th century, who then set it up in his courtyard on the corner of Fleinerstrasse and Katharinenstrasse. After the Second World War, the figure was buried under rubble and was found again by Wilhelm Rieth .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wanner et al. 2013, p. 26.
- ↑ a b c d Hartmut Gräf: Unterländer Altars 1350–1540. An inventory . Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1983 ( Heilbronner Museumsheft . No. 2), No. B33
- ↑ Wanner et al. 2013, p. 26.
- ↑ Uwe Jacobi: Heilbronn - The most beautiful years? Post-war period in a German city . Heilbronner Stimm Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Heilbronn 1984, ISBN 3-921923-01-8 ( series on Heilbronn . Volume 9), p. 101f.
literature
- Peter Wanner et al. a .: Heilbronn historically! Developing a city on the river . The exhibitions in the Otto Rettenmaier House / House of City History and in the Museum in the Deutschhof (= small series of publications from the Heilbronn archive . Volume 62 ). Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2013, ISBN 978-3-940646-11-8 (further series: Museo. 26. Further ISBN 978-3-936921-16-8 ).
