Lot 705 D

While Hofmann mentions a destroyed plaster model apart from missing casts in iron (1 ex.) and bronze, Nerdinger states that the statuette, designed during the war, was "cast in iron in several exemplars commissioned by the air force services Berlin-Adlershof and awarded for special merits in the air forces" (Winfried Nerdinger, Rudolf Belling und die Kunstströmungen in Berlin 1918-1923 mit einem Katalog der plastischen Werke, Berlin 1981, p. 226). Most of the iron casts appear to be missing today, according to kind information by Elisabeth Weber-Belling, Krailling. Edition or number of casts are unknown. Another aluminium cast as well as a wooden exemplar are documented by Weber-Belling. - Very rare.