Joseph Enseling - Adam (von Adam und Eva) - image-1
Joseph Enseling - Adam (von Adam und Eva) - image-2
Joseph Enseling - Adam (von Adam und Eva) - image-1Joseph Enseling - Adam (von Adam und Eva) - image-2

Lot 744 R

Joseph Enseling - Adam (von Adam und Eva)

Auction 1013 - overview Cologne
25.05.2013, 11:30 - Modern Art May 25 2013
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 9.760 € (incl. premium)

Bronze. Height 76.5 cm. Signed 'J.ENSELING' on the plinth and numbered 1/1. Foundry mark 'GUSS SCHMÄKE DÜSSELDORF' to reverse edge of plinth. - With fine gold-brown patina. Very good condition.

Hegel-Enseling 1914, 3

The figures of Adam and Eva were made for the supervisory boardroom of the Board of Trustees of the Margarethe Krupp Foundation at the Margarethenhöhe, Essen. Despite the numeration 1/1, 6 exemplars in total are known to exist, along with a number of posthumous casts.

Rau Collection for UNICEF

Provenance

In possession of the artist's family until 1986

Literature

Paul Alexander Schettler, Joseph Enseling, in Hellweg, April 1922, p. 337, with illus.

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf 1986 (Stadtmuseum), Joseph Enseling 1886-1957 Skulpturen, exhib. cat. no.3, with illus.