File:Stoss Altar design for Carmelite Church in Nuremberg.jpg

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Veit Stoss: Altar design for Carmelite Church in Nuremberg with Nativity.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Veit Stoss  (1447–1533)  wikidata:Q163800 q:cs:Veit Stoss
 
Veit Stoss
Alternative names
German Veit Stoß, Polish Wit Stwosz
Description German sculptor, wood carver, painter, graphic artist and copper engraver
Date of birth/death circa 1447
date QS:P,+1447-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 20 September 1533 / 1533 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Horb am Neckar Nuremberg
Work location
Kraków; Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q163800
Title
Altar design for Carmelite Church in Nuremberg with Nativity.
label QS:Len,"Altar design for Carmelite Church in Nuremberg with Nativity."
label QS:Lpl,"Projekt ołtarza w klasztorze karmelitów w Norymberdze ze sceną Narodzenia Dzieciątka."
label QS:Lfr,"Conception d'autel pour l'église de Carmelite à Nuremberg avec la Nativité."
Date 1520
date QS:P571,+1520-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium ink on paper
medium QS:P186,Q127418;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 45 cm (17.7 in); width: 32 cm (12.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,45U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,32U174728
institution QS:P195,Q11787234
Object history

1520: commissioned by Andreas Stoss, Nuremberg
1866-1868: bequeathed to Jagiellonian University Museum, Kraków by Władysław Czartoryski

between 1939 and 1945
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: stolen by Nazi Germany

transferred to Berlin

1980: restituted to Jagiellonian University Museum, Kraków by German Democratic Republic
Notes The altar for which the drawing was prepared is today in the Bamberg Cathedral. It was commissioned by artist's son Andreas Stoss, prior of the Carmelite convent in Nuremberg, however since the convent was dissolved in 1525 the altar found it's place in Bamberg in 1543.
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