Dagmar Preising, Suermondt – Ludwig - Museum Aken

1. Dagmar Preising / Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
A previously unknown and recently
rediscovered Brussels altarpiece (1470-90)
in an Aachen church

2. Ghislaine Derveaux-Van Ussel: Le retable malinois de
l‘èglise d‘Ödeby, (artes belgicae), Bruxelles 1973, p.81

3. Aachen / Schleckheim, Trinity chapel nowadays,
built 1646, rebuilt in 19th century , choir and transept 1930s
Altarpiece in the chapel since 1802

4. Aachen /Schleckheim, Trinity chapel, choir, photo before 1933
© Rheinisches
Bildarchiv Köln (RBA)

5. The altarpiece without predella and altar of the 19th century
Photo before renovation of chapel and altarpiece in the 1990s

6. Altarpiece in Aachen / Schleckheim, Trinity chapel,
state 2011 after maltreatment in the 1990s
© by courtesy of
Rheinisches Amt f.
Denkmalpflege/
LVR Pulheim
(and following
images concering
the altarpiece)

7. All fragments of the canopies fortunately survived in the attic
of the chapel

8. Fragments of the architectural canopies

9. Brussels quality mark (‚keurmerk‘) on the top board of
one canopy

10. Brussels quality mark for the carver‘s work on the
head of a figure, discovered in the workshop of LVR

11. Brussels quality mark for the carpenter‘s work on top of the
shrine, right corner, discovered in the workshop of LVR

12. Composite and refined canopy of the left compartment
before inserting into the shrine

13. Canopy after inserting into the left compartment

14. Journey of the Magi, two different states of restoration

15. Shrine = baltic wainscot, figures = local oak,
191 x 212 x 20 cm, State before retouches and adding the canopies

16. Schleckheim altarpiece 2011 State after restoration 2015

18. Nativity
in the left
compartment

19. central compartment with
Adoration of the Magi

20. Presentation in
temple
in the right
compartment

21. Brussels altarpiece with the nativity scene, c. 1470-80, 123 x 105,5 cm
Berlin, Bode-Museum, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

22. Brussels altarpiece with
the nativity scene,
1490-1500, 105 x 97 cm
Musée communal de la
Ville de Bruxelles

23. So-called Rouen
altarpiece, Brussel
c. 1470-1490
165 x 175 x 26 cm
Rouen, Musée
départemental des
Antiquité

25. 2015-04-26
Consecration of the altarpiece by the auxiliary bischop Karl Borsch
in the Trinity chapel Aachen / Schleckheim