Judocus Vredis Sold at Auction Prices

LATE GOTHIC RELIEF OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ST ANNE - Monastery Wedderen near Dülmen, presumably ca.

1520-40. Judocus Vredis (ca. 1473-1540) Coloured pipeclay. Round form. Profiled rim with blossoms, resp. stars. Central throne-like seat, upon it St Anne and Mary holding Christ child. On the seat frames depictions of the annunciation, above the seat God the Father with the pneuma. In the background forest landscape with hermits and kneeling monch. On the upper margin QVISOVIS IN ADVERSIS SCAM PVLSAVERIS ANA PRECIBVS IS BENE TVT ERIS. ø 21 cm. Labelled below the bracket JVDOCVS VREDIS. Condition B. Provenance: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia. Literature: - Albert Wormstall: Judocus Vredis und das Kartäuserkloster zu Wedderen, Münster 1896. See panel 5. - Timothy Sodmann: Judocus Vredis: Kunst aus der Stille - Eine Klosterwerkstatt der Dürerzeit, Borken 2001. See p. 468ff. Judocus Vredis was born ca. 1473 as Jost Pelzer in Vreden. In 1493 he joined the Carthusian monastery Wedderen near Dülmen and gave up his civil name. Vredis remained in Weddern for the rest of his life and helt various offices over the years. In 1531 he was voted the monastery's prior. At that time the Wedderen monastery had a buoyant art production and Judocos Vredis made coloured reliefs out of pipe clay in his own workshop. These various works with religious depictions were designed for private devotion. The form created by Vredis was still partly used in the 17th century.