Kreuzigungsaltar, linke Flügelaußenseite: Hl. Sigismund,

1519

Material / Technology / Carrier

Tannenholz (Abies sp.)

Dimensions of the object

178,6 x 53,8 cm

Displayed

AP OG Saal II

Department

Altdeutsche Malerei

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

5371

Acquisition

1808/09 durch Ankauf aus dem Kollegium St. Salvator in Augsburg erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Hans Burgkmair d. Ä., Kreuzigungsaltar, linke Flügelaußenseite: Hl. Sigismund, 1519, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/A9xlepgLWv (Last updated on 18.04.2023)

The outer panels of the Crucifixion Altarpiece (see inv. no. 5329, 5330, 5331, 5372), which were separated from the inner panels sometime soon after 1822, show St Sigismund and St George in a domed pavilion. The architectural structure combines Lombardian motifs with those of Venetian painting, which Burgkmair may have seen during an Italian journey historians assume he made in 1507. The saints refer to the presumed donor, Georg Peutinger, a citizen of Augsburg and doctor of both civil and church law. St George was his namesake, St Sigismund that of his brother, Sigmund III, and of his uncle, Sigmund Peutinger II, who upon his death had left his two nephews a handsome bequest.