Die Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige

c. 1490

on display

The Younger Zurich Carnation Master [Nelkenmeister]

Hans Leu the Elder, unsettled attributionc. 1460 Baden – 1507 Zürich

We have 5 artworks by The Younger Zurich Carnation Master [Nelkenmeister] online. We have 5 artworks by Hans Leu the Elder online.
We have 2512 paintings online.

Zwingli believed only in the Bible and not in traditional stories of salvation – where ‘good and evil, falsehood and fiction are mixed together like nonsense.’ The Bible, for example, makes no mention of the Three Kings depicted on the left. It only mentions an unspecified number of wise men from the East who came to the manger. It was only later legends of saints that told of three kings.  This gave rise to a motif that is still an integral part of Reformed Christmas cribs today.

Inside painting of the left altar wing, see inv. 1952.Kunsthaus Zürich, Reformation, 2017 [Andreas Rüfenacht]

Also known as

Adoration of the Magi L’Adoration des Mages

Medium

Tempera on canvas on pinewood

Dimensions

image: 169 x 117 cm

Inventory number

1929

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by the heirs of August Abegg, 1929

Signature

inscr. b. l. with one red and one white clove

Inscriptions

Accession year

1929

Provenance

Hans Leu (der Ältere) (*1460 Baden, +1507 Zürich) (Künstler/-in)
Der jüngere Zürcher Nelkenmeister (Künstler/-in)
Verbleib unbekannt
Polnisches Schloss
Verbleib unbekannt
August Abegg (*1861 Zürich, +1924 Turin) (Sammler/-in)
bis 1929, Erben August Abegg, Erbe
ab 1929, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, Geschenk

Provenance category

not a cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution

Literature (provenance)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007.

About the provenance

State of research 01.01.2007 Do you have questions, criticism, suggestions, and further information? Please send us a message to provenienzforschung(at)kunsthaus.ch.

Literature (general)

- Die Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Christian Klemm, Sammlungskatalog Kunsthaus Zürich, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 29 (ill.). - Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 28. - Bilderwelt des Spätmittelalters. Die Wandmalereien im Kloster Töss (Neujahrsblatt der Stadtbibliothek Winterthur 345), Winterthur, 2011, S. 60.

Object type

painting

Classification

A 1[1] painting Middle Ages CHE and GER

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