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| Keywords: German - Chandelier - Walters 61309.jpg This bizarre creation originally had little candleholders attached to the antlers Chandeliers made from wooden half-figures with elk antlers attached at their backs called Lüstermännchen or Lüsterweibchen literally little chandelier man or woman were popular in Germany Even major artists such as Tilman Riemenschneider designed them They hung in town meeting halls inns hunting lodges and domestic spaces While the spreading forms of antlers may have suggested its use as a natural chandelier the addition of a half figure is the kind of hybrid creation that appealed to the medieval taste for fantasy Many of the existing chandeliers represent a woman holding a coat of arms with the antlers growing from her back The motif of a huntsman praying is unusual and may allude to the story of St Hubert a huntsman who came across a miraculous stag in the forest and fell on his knees before it in prayer ca 1500 Late Medieval wood with polychromy and elk horn cm 72 5 67 5 accession number 61 309 20434 William Randolph Hearst date and mode of acquisition unknown Blumka Gallery New York Mr and Mrs James O Anderson 1971 by purchase Walters Art Museum June 8 1971 by gift Gift of Mr and Mrs James O Anderson 1971 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin south Germany Walters Art Museum license Antler furniture Cervus canadensis antlers Furniture in the United States Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Lüsterweibchen | ||||
