Highlights
Draft of a funerary monument
- Artist
- Anselm Sickinger
- Locality
- Munich
- Date
- c. 1840
- Material
- Watercolour pen and ink drawing
- Dimensions
- H. 44,0 cm
- Location
- Not exhibited
- Inventory Number
- 20/941
- Acquisition
- From the legacy Adalbert Sickinger.
- Epoch
- Nineteenth Century
Description
The draft for a funerary monument was conceived by Anselm Sickinger (1807-1873), a sculptor, woodcarver and stonemason who ran a respected and productive sculpture workshop in Munich for more than four decades.
The funerary monument, which is free of any ornamentation, is impressing because of its simple monumentality. Above a plinth a broad stele rises, covered by a gable roof with two round-arched, still empty inscription panels, in front of which a steeply rising cross is placed in the centre. The design is also a document of the shift in sepulchral culture in a period of burgeoning cities and the construction of new, spacious cemeteries.
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