A Young Man

1486

Michael Wolgemut German, 1434-1519

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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Title A Young Man

Artwork Date 1486

Artist Michael Wolgemut

Life Dates 1434-1519

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on linden panel

Dimensions Framed: 16 × 12 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (40.6 × 31.1 × 4.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler, in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Karl Kanzler

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 41.1

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Inscriptions Inscribed, at top: L * 1-4 * 8-6 * hz

Provenance

1940-1941, (A.F. Mondschein, New York, New York, USA)

purchased by Ernest Kanzler [1892-1967] and Josephine Clay Kanzler [1891-1954] (Detroit, Michigan, USA) as a gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts

January 1941, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Wenke, Wilhelm. “Das Bildnis bei Michael Wolgemut.” Anzeiger des Germanischen National-Museums (1932/33): p. 61 ff.

Lutze, Eberhard. “Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519).” Pantheon 14 (September 1934): pp. 262-269.

Valentiner, Wilhelm. "A Portrait by Durer's Master Michael Wolgemut." Bulletin of the DIA 20, no. 6 (1941): pp. 58-60 (cover ill.). 

Valentiner, Wilhelm. “A Portrait by Dürer's Master Michael Wolgemut.” Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 74, 78-80 (ill.).

Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 146, no. 800.

German Painting of the Fifteenth Century. Sales cat., Durlacher Brothers. New York, 1947, cat. 11.

Buchner, Ernst. “Zum Malwerk des Meisters L Cz.” in Festausgabe für Seine Königliche Hoheit Kronprinz Rupprecht von Bayern. Munich, 1953, p. 88, pl. 8.

Strieder, Peter. “Eine Scheibe mit dem Bildnes Lorenz Tuchers.” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 21 no. H.2 (1958): 175-182, p. 180.

“In Memoriam: Ernest Kanzler (1892-1967).” Bulletin of the DIA 47, no. 3/4 (1968): pp. 43-54 (ill.).

Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, vol. 9: Franken, Böhmen und Thüringen-Sachsen in der Zeit von 1400 bis 1450. Munich, 1958, reprinted Nendeln and Liechtenstein, 1969, p. 59 (fig. 109).

Albrecht Dürer 1471–1971. Exh. cat., Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nürnberg, 1971, pp. 64, 66, cat. 100 (ill.).

Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 91, cat. 62 (ill.).

Strieder, Peter. “Wolgemut, Michael.” The Dictionary of Art, vol. 33, ed. Jane Turner. London and New York, 1996, p. 300.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Michael Wolgemut, A Young Man, 1486, oil on linden panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler, in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Karl Kanzler, 41.1.