A PAIR OF AUSTRIAN GOTHIC ANGELS Carinthia, Neuere Villacher Werkstätten, circa 1520 H. 50 cm Hardwood, crarved in full round. The bottom part worked over. The angels probably designed for a burial site. Original polychromy retouches, remains of primer in the area of ​​the incarnate. Wings and hands are missing. Light age damages. South German private collection, assembled between 1955 and 1980. Very similar to the two sculptures at hand is a group of angels on the main altar in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Pontebba. (Lit. Otto Demus, Die Spätgotischen Altäre Kärntens, p. 320 ff., fig. 394 - see Abb./fig. 1) and two angels with candlesticks from, today in the Landesmuseum Joanneum/Graz. (Lit. G. Biedermann, Katalog Alte Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Mittelalterliche Kunst, fig. 180/181 - see Abb./fig. 2).