Christ at the Mount of Olives

The artist copied Dürer’s 1510 designed woodcut “Christ am Oilberg,” part of his “Kleinen Passion,” which was first laid in 1511, from the opposite side. Despite the side circulation and motif changes, e.g. the attitude of Peter and the integration of the suffering skeleton, the orientation on the template is clearly visible. As in the original, the copyist shows Christ kneeling in a slightly elevated position in the lost profile. The Son of God raised the folded hands and tilted his head into his prayer. Between clouds, an angel appears in the sky and presents - unnoticed by the praying - the cross. While in the foreground the attendants of Christ, the disciples of Peter, John and James, have sunk into their sleep, the war powers are already gathering in the background. There is no evidence of Dürer as the intellectual creator of the image idea, but the letter combination “VS” at the bottom left refers to the Nuremberg artist Virgil Solis. Typographically, a German text is printed on the back, which testifies to the once belonging of the woodcut to a book.