Faber von Kreuznach, Conrad Lot n° 2

Conrad Faber von Kreuznach c. 1500 Kreuznach - 1553 Frankfurt a. M. Portrait of Johann Raiss in Front of a Vast Landscape Portrait of Anna Uffsteiner in Front of a Vast Landscape Oil on panel (parquetted). 50 x 35.5 cm and 50.5 x 35 cm. Provenance With Colnaghi, London, 1913; With Knoedler Gallery, New York, 1913; Mrs W. Hayward (later Mrs Morton, later Mrs Rovenski); Her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 1957; William A. Graham, Baltimore, Maryland, 1963; Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1979. Literature Max J. Friedländer: Conrad Faber. Painter of the Patricians of Francfort in the Second Quarter of the XVIth Century, in: Art in America, I (1913), pp. 143ff, nos. 11 & 12, reproduced figs. 5 & 6; Erna Auerbach: Faber von Creuznach, or the Master of the Holzhausen Portraits, in: The Burlington Magazine, LXX (1937), pp. 15-24, reproduced plate IIID; Wolfgang Brücker: Conrad Faber von Creuznach, in: Schriften des Historischen Museums Frankfurt a.M., XI (1963), pp. 45-6, 175-6, nos. 20 & 21, 68 & 69; Angelica Dülberg: Privatportraits. Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Diss., Cologne 1985, published Berlin 1990, p. 194, nos. 58 & 59, reproduced pp. 526-9; Corinna Peuckert, in Ekkehard Mai (ed.): Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Cologne 1993, pp. 16-19, nos. 7 & 8, reproduced. Shaped by the early portraits of Cranach and the Danube school, these representative half-figure portraits in front of vast landscapes fit perfectly into the impressive œuvre of Conrad Faber von Kreuznach. Probably born in Kreuznach, today Bad Kreuznach, on the river Nahe, the young painter can be traced to Frankfurt from 1