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Dürer's foundation plaque

Dürer's foundation plaque View into the choir of the Rochus Chapel, foundation plaque directly north of the main altar

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

View into the choir of the Rochus Chapel, foundation plaque directly north of the main altar


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Open foundation board with hinged doors

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Open foundation board with hinged doors


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque closed foundation board with hinged doors

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

closed foundation board with hinged doors


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Conrad Imhoff

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Conrad Imhoff


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque portrait of the chapel founder Conrad Imhoff

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

portrait of the chapel founder Conrad Imhoff


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Comparison picture above: Conrat Imhof by Jakob Elsner, Nuremberg, 1486 (Munich, Bavarian National Museum inventory no.: MA.310)

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Comparison picture above: Conrat Imhof by Jakob Elsner, Nuremberg, 1486 (Munich, Bavarian National Museum inventory no.: MA.310)


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Munich, Bavarian National Museum / Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Portrait of the chapel founder Conrad Imhoff, detailed view

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Portrait of the chapel founder Conrad Imhoff, detailed view


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Mercy seat

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Mercy seat


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque “Grace Seat”, which ultimately goes back to Dürer’s woodcut of the same name from 1511, freely paraphrasing it.

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

“Grace Seat”, which ultimately goes back to Dürer’s woodcut of the same name from 1511, freely paraphrasing it.


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2023, Pablo de la Riestra, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Mercy seat and inscription

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Mercy seat and inscription


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque “Mercy Seat”, detail, putti with crown of thorns

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

“Mercy Seat”, detail, putti with crown of thorns


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque “Mercy Seat”, detailed view

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

“Mercy Seat”, detailed view


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Die päpstliche Tiara Gottes bei Dürer ist hier sicherlich konfessionsbedingt zu einer Kaiserkrone geworden.

Dürer's foundation plaque

Info

1624


Die päpstliche Tiara Gottes bei Dürer ist hier sicherlich konfessionsbedingt zu einer Kaiserkrone geworden.


photo 2023, Theo Noll

The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Dürer's foundation plaque Detailed view of the faces of Christ and God the Father

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Detailed view of the faces of Christ and God the Father


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Arms and hands of the deathly pale Christ with the left hand of God the Father

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Arms and hands of the deathly pale Christ with the left hand of God the Father


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque The left hand of Godfather pointing to the wound of Christ

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

The left hand of Godfather pointing to the wound of Christ


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Side cartouches: left Hans Imhoff (1563-1629) / right his two wives Anna Maria, née Paumgartner and Anna Maria, née Schmidmayer

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Side cartouches: left Hans Imhoff (1563-1629) / right his two wives Anna Maria, née Paumgartner and Anna Maria, née Schmidmayer


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2023, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Lower inscription panel with medallion of the Mother of God and Child, underneath a cartouche with two putti as Death and Sleep.

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Lower inscription panel with medallion of the Mother of God and Child, underneath a cartouche with two putti as Death and Sleep.


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Medallion of the Mother of God with child

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Medallion of the Mother of God with child


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Comparison picture with two putti: above, detail of the memorial tablet for Willibald Imhoff in St. Sebald / below, detail with a painted cartouche from the so-called Dürer memorial tablet in the Rochus Chapel

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Comparison picture with two putti: above, detail of the memorial tablet for Willibald Imhoff in St. Sebald / below, detail with a painted cartouche from the so-called Dürer memorial tablet in the Rochus Chapel


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque lower inscription plaque, opened state

Dürer's foundation plaque

Info

1624


lower inscription plaque, opened state


photo 2023, Theo Noll

The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Dürer's foundation plaque Picture comparison

Dürer's foundation plaque

Info

1624


Picture comparison


photo 2023, Theo Noll

The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Dürer's foundation plaque Picture comparison

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Picture comparison


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2023, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque opened state

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

opened state


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2023, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque opened state

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

opened state


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque The inside of the folding panel depicts the death of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, in 1504. (signature AD at the bottom right!)

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

The inside of the folding panel depicts the death of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, in 1504. (signature AD at the bottom right!)


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque The inside of the folding panel depicts the death of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, in 1504. (signature AD at the bottom right!)

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

The inside of the folding panel depicts the death of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, in 1504. (signature AD at the bottom right!)


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Inside of the folding board, detailed view

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Inside of the folding board, detailed view


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds and upper inscription

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds and upper inscription


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Pablo de la Riestra

Dürer's foundation plaque Adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Comparison images, details from: Dürer, The Little Passion, 1509 - 1511, Birth of Jesus

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Comparison images, details from: Dürer, The Little Passion, 1509 - 1511, Birth of Jesus


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Dürer's foundation plaque Comparison images, details from: Dürer, The Little Passion, 1509 - 1511, Birth of Jesus

Dürer's foundation plaque

1624

Comparison images, details from: Dürer, The Little Passion, 1509 - 1511, Birth of Jesus


The so-called Imhoff or Dürer foundation plaque from 1624 hangs in the choir directly north of the main altar. It is a flat “cupboard” with a folding panel. For a long time, the work was considered the chapel's ultimate celebrity because it supposedly contained two pictures by Dürer - even Goethe admired them in 1797 without knowing that they were copies. But it's even more serious: not even this property as a "copy" can be proven today. The object is also an epitaph for the art collector Hans VII Imhoff, his father Willibald I and his ancestors Imhoff and Pirckheimer. Georg Gärtner the Younger was the painter here. The solid back wall shows an adoration of the Christ child by the shepherds. The inside of the folding panel depicts the death in 1504 of Creszentia Pirckheimer, wife of the famous humanist, this time with the mentioned year of death and again with Dürer's monogram, although the great master had no business here. When closed, you can see what is perhaps the most interesting of the three paintings: a “mercy seat”, which is ultimately said to go back to Dürer's woodcut of the same name from 1511, paraphrasing it freely. Iconographically, it is striking that Dürer's papal tiara of God has certainly become an imperial crown for religious reasons. Furthermore, there is little correspondence with the model, as a whole and in detail, let alone the painting style. Above the flat cabinet there is an aedicula-like panel with the portrait of the chapel founder Konrad Imhoff, as we know him from the depiction on the triptych by Jakob Elsner dated 1486 (today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), i.e. a copy of a late Gothic work. (Pablo de la Riestra) Rochuskapelle Nuremberg, 32 pages, 66 illustrations, format 13.6 x 19 cm, 1st edition 2021, Art publisher Josef Fink / ISBN 978-3-95976-339-4​Feedback gebenSeitenleisten

Location: Nuremberg, Rochus Chapel

Design: Dürer, Rezeption, Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

Realization: Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus), Georg (Jörg) d. J.

photo 2021, Theo Noll

Georg (Jörg) d. J.
Gärtner (Gertner, Hortulanus)

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