The three-winged altarpiece shows the crucifixion with saint mary and saint john evangelist on the central panel as well as the donors kneeling in privies, the saints cecilia and valerian on the inner wings, and the annunciation on the outer wings. Two now lost standing wings with saints urban and sigismund are considered to belong to the altar. Based on the time the altar was built and the coats of arms of zollern and bavaria attached to the privies, the donors can be identified as burgrave frederick vi - as elector of brandenburg frederick i - and his wife elisabeth of bavaria-landshut, whose main residences included cadolzburg. The red eagle on frederick i's left privy indicates that frederick was invested with the margraviate of brandenburg in 1417. Frederick i withdrew to cadolzburg in 1426, and the altar must have been built after 1426. In 1850, the prussian lawyer and historian julius von minutoli made the work, which he had rediscovered during his research on frederick i, public. After viewing it in 1873 and at his urgent request, crown prince frederick (iii) received it as a gift. Object Type: reredos, triptych, painting. Genre: religious art. Date: from 1425 until 1430. Dimensions: height: 161.5 cm (63.5 in) ; width: 181.8 cm (71.5 in). Medium: tempera on spruce wood. Depicted People: Saint Cecilia, Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg, Virgin Mary, John the Evangelist, Valérien de Tournus. Collection: Jagdschloss Grunewald.
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