Meister des Tucher-Altars, Werkstatt Lot n° 2001

Meister des Tucher-Altars, studio of The Flagellation Tempera on panel. 49.5 x 38 cm. Provenance 1940 collection of Oberregierungsrat Sepp, Munich. - South German private ownership. Exhibitions Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (after 1945). Literature P. Strieder, in: Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 1975, p. 46, illus. 11. - A. Stange: Die deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. vol. 3., ed. by N. Lieb, updated by P. Strieder & H. Härtle, Munich 1978, p. 44, no. 64a. This late Gothic panel shows the "Flagellation of Christ", a scene from the Passion, and like its counterpart with the depiction of "Christ carrying the Cross" (also in south Germany but different private ownership: Strieder 1975, op. cit., fig. 10 and Stange 1978, op. cit., no. 64b) it may have formerly been part of a multiple scene altarpiece depicting the Passion. The panel has been assigned by Peter Strieder to the workshop of the Master of the Tucher Altar, who received his notname after the altar he created around 1440/1450 for the Nuremberg Augustinian Hermit Church. This altar, named after the Nuremberg patrician family Tucher, with its depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ, is today displayed in the Nuremberg Frauenkirche. Peter Strieder dates the present panel in the years before the Tucher Altar was created.