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Saint Margaret
Heinrich Douvermannc. 1520
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
The sculptor Henrik Douverman worked in Kalkar in the Lower Rhine region, close to the present-day Dutch border. His jewel-like depiction of Saint Margaret emerging from the dragon that had swallowed her was likely made as an object for private devotion. The saint was frequently invoked by pregnant women hoping for a safe and relatively painless delivery.
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- Title: Saint Margaret
- Creator: Henrik Douverman
- Date Created: c. 1520
- Physical Dimensions: 26.5 cm
- Technique and Material: Oak
- Provenance: Acquired in 1852 for the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
- Inv.-No.: 473
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815614
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/skulpturensammlung-und-museum-fuer-byzantinische-kunst/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinisch Kunst/ Antje Voigt; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 20 / Julien Chapuis
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1480–85 Dinslaken (?)–c. 1543–44 Kalkar (?)
- Artist Biography: Douverman probably trained as woodcarver with Dries Holthuis in Kleve around 1506–10. In 1517 he is documented in Kalkar. Only three works can be securely attributed to him based on documentary evidence. His works, which were typical of late Gothic wood sculpture, betray Flemish influences. Unusually, Douvermann occasionally dispensed with polychromy for his works in oak.
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