Old wooden Jesus sculpture from a small town church

I found the Sculpture a week ago in my aunts basement. She said she owns it for about 30 years and it would be from the church in the town she lived before. We don't know anything more about it, maybe you can help us finding out more about it. Especially about the worth and the age.
The Site does not allow me to post all the picture in the thread thats why im using a link to google drive so you can see the Sculpture
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sVI9MULS6-ubQQFCiEgxeL7j0pyp_uGPWJH-nSeBRYA/edit?usp=sharing

I hope this shows up as a link if not you can copy paste it.

Thank you for your help

 

Hi, Laurice! Members would prefer photographs posted here. Someone will be along shortly with instructions. (Not to worry, all new members have difficulty at first.)

Debora

 

Welcome, Laurice. You'll have to resize you pictures, 640 x 480k is best.
Here is more info on how to upload pictures, please remember to click on 'full image' when you post:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/posting-a-thread-and-uploading-pictures.15990/


Posting images from your phone:

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In the meantime, I'll post one:

 

Laurice, in which country does your aunt live?

 

Laurice-What's the size of your carving ?

 

Also add a picture of the bottom. Looks rather old to me.

 

What city and name of the church it's from?

 

Germany

 

Your statue is Jesus as the Good Shepherd (Christians are his flock). He would have had a shepherd's crook in his left hand.

He is antique, has considerable (and beautiful) wear, but I don't know how antique he is. Germany has had some of the best religious art carvers in the world, and life-like carving began in the Gothic period.

But none of us here are experts in this field, which means we can only guess or post pages of photos of Good Shepherds etc that are not relevant.
So I would advise you to send your photos to a German museum of religious art, like the Schnütgen Museum in Köln/Cologne:
https://www.museum-schnuetgen.de/Kontakt

 

I don't know the exact town but its from
Rhine Hesse

 

In that case the Schnütgen Museum is the best place to ask.
Will you let us know what they say?

 

Yes thank you very much