Crucified Christ (c. 1525–1530): Art, History and Details

Crucified Christ (c. 1525–1530) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hans Leinberger (German).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This sculpture is possibly the best of several crucifixes by this famous sculptor from the Bavarian town of Landshut on the Upper Danube. The pathos and graphic realism with which the artist has modeled the body of Christ ranks this sculpture as one of the artist’s finest works. Leinberger was, along with Matthäus Krennis, an outstanding exponent of the late Gothic style pervasive throughout the Upper Danube area of southeastern Germany during the first decades of the 1500s. This sculpture was probably suspended over the main altar of a church whose origins have not been identified.

Object facts

• Title: Crucified Christ
• Date: c. 1525–1530
• Creator attribution: Hans Leinberger (German)
• Culture: Germany, Landshut, 16th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: lindenwood
• Dimensions: Part 1: 105.9 x 108 cm (41 11/16 x 42 1/2 in.); Part 2: 215.6 x 121.9 cm (84 7/8 x 48 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1938.293

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "Late German Gothic Sculpture." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 4 (April 1939): 43-46.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

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