

PROPERTY FROM A CORPORATE COLLECTION
Typical of Bavarian sculpture under the influence of the Landshut master Hans Leinberger are the broad, chubby heads with small features exhibited by the Christ Child and Angels in the present group. The motif of the Angels 'opening up' the Virgin's drapery as if it were a curtain lends a playful theatricality to the composition.
RELATED LITERATURE
O. Schmitt and G. Swarzenski, Meisterwerke der Bildhauerkunst in Frankfurter Privatbesitz, Bd. 1, Deutsche und Franzosische Plastik des Mittelalters, Frankfurt am Main, 1921; T. Müller, Die Bildwerke in Holz, Ton und Stein von der Mitte des XV. bis gegen Mitte des XVI. Jahrhunderts, cat. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1959; Um Leinberger: Schüler und Zeitgenossen, exh. cat. Spitalkirche Heiliggeist, Landshut, 2007