Holy Sebastian
St. Sebastian clothed with loincloth and tied to a tree trunk. Fullplastic work in a pondering posture with a right leg and a right arm raised above the head. A cloak lies over the left arm and shoulder and stands rigid to the right. Arrows completely lost.
Lit.: Boeck, Wilhelm: Zur Tätigkeit der Familie Zürn in Oberschwaben. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 10 (1943), S. 81-98, hier S. ?; Hoffmann, Herbert (Bearb.): Bodensee-Museum Friedrichshafen. Kunstsammlung. Lindau/Konstanz 1957, S. 14; Zoege von Manteuffel, Claus: Die Bildhauerfamilie Zürn 1606-1666. Bd. 2: Bildtafeln und Werkkatalog. Weißenhorn 1969, S. 457.
Before 1950: unknown;
From January 1950: held by Dr. Benno Griebert, Meersburg;
Early in February 1950: Prof. Julius Baum of the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart offered for purchase (rejected);
1952: offered in the 50th catalog of the Kunstversteigerungshaus Weinmüller, Munich as No. 672;
23.4.1952: Purchase for the Städtische Bodenseemuseum in Friedrichshafen
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