Zittau Collections of Old Art and Wolfgang Sterling’s Collection
November 24, 2011 - February 12, 2012
Museum of Modern Art | Picture Gallery
This exhibition features a collection of one of the oldest German museums, the Museum of the City of Zittau in Saxony, located in the premises of the local Franciscan monastery. The selection is focussed on the representative works of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art complemented by selected works from the unique local collection of the Cologne collector Wolfgang Sterling comprising works of art with religious themes of both old and modern art.
Crucifixion - 87. The illustrations print Schatzbehalter der Wahren Reichthumer des Heils, 1491
Christ at the Column sufferers - the cover sheet to the cycle of the Little Passion, 1509
Emperor Maximilian I as alive and dead, Austria, 1519
INRI, 1913
You are Christ reveal Himself, 1918
Crucifixion, 1928
Christ, red steer and Madonna, 1950
