St. Florian saves the burning Stockern Castle
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| St. Florian saves the burning Stockern Castle |
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| Martin Johann Schmidt , 1772 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 219 × 125 cm |
St. Florian saves the burning Stockern Castle or simply St. Florian is a painting by the painter Martin Johann Schmidt called "Kremser Schmidt" from 1772. It contains a topographical view of Stockern Castle .
description
The picture shows St. Florian extinguishing the fire that broke out in Stockern Castle. Florian, a Roman civil servant under Emperor Diocletian , is dressed like a Roman officer, but he has a full beard. He wears a short-sleeved tunic under muscle armor , and the red soldier's coat, rich in fabric and wrinkles, drapes over his hips and legs. He wears an officer's helmet with a plume on his head . The feet are bare.
St. Florian raised his gaze upwards and turned the surfaces of his hands up in a pleading gesture. Behind him on the left a hovering angel seems to push a white flag aside, at the top right you can see two angel heads looking down with their respective pairs of wings, in the lower left corner an angel looking up, draped with a blue cloth, holds a millstone as a reference to Florian's martyrdom . Below the saint's hands, on the right-hand side of the picture, hovers a larger, strikingly white painted and white-draped angel figure, pouring water from a wooden bucket onto the Stockern Castle shown below, in which a roof fire has broken out.
The exterior of the two-storey complex in the Renaissance style with the rectangular courtyard and round towers at the corners is reproduced realistically in Schmidt's painting. The stone bridge to the main gate and the park wall can also be seen.
history
The picture is a side altar sheet from the former parish church of St. Vitus in Stockern , which has not existed in its old form since 1909. It later belonged temporarily to Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , was bought by Alice and Richard Neumann around 1925 and, after Neumann's collection had been "aryanized", moved to the Krems City Museum. In 2007 it was restituted to the heirs of the Neumann family and in 2012 it was auctioned off from the Neumann collection at Sotheby’s .
It was exhibited in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg in 2008 . In the same year it was also on view at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna . In 2010/11 it was shown at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A photograph of the picture is in the Lower Austrian Regional Library: Sanct Florian / original painting in the parish church of Stockern, N.-Ö., black and white photo, approx. 1904, on cardboard, printed; NÖLB Sig. 7.363 (old G XXXIX 987); IDN: 25637 / IDA: BILD-25637; Date of acquisition: December 14, 2009, URN / URI 1023FAA2-335-00090-000004AC-10230D3C ( entry ( memento of the original from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked Original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. In the BIS-C 2000 web catalog, Landesbibliothekenverbund Österreich / Südtirol , kvk1.dabis.org).
- ^ Description of the castle on austria-forum.org
- ↑ a b Auction 2012 together with St. Johannes Nepomuk , the other side altarpiece; the main picture, the martyrdom of St. Vitus , has been in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since 1932 ; Information about last opportunity - Altar pictures by Kremser Schmidt will be returned , press release BoxID 75017, Nuremberg, November 17, 2008, on lifePR.de, accessed December 17, 2012.
- ↑ Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser-Schmidt: Saint Florian rescuing the burning Stockern Castle , description on sothebys.com, January 26, 2012.
