Gerhard Marcks - Kriemhild I - image-1

Lot 329 D

Gerhard Marcks - Kriemhild I

Auction 1051 - overview Cologne
29.05.2015, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

Gerhard Marcks

Kriemhild I
1971

Bronze Height 40.9 cm Artist's mark on the back of the plinth to the right, cast number and foundry mark "GUSS BARTH RINTELN" on the rear side edge of plinth. Cast 5/10. - Fine golden-coloured, partially slightly reddish patina.

Based on his grand-daughter Christine as a model, Gerhard Marcks created five different figures of a standing girl from different angles between 1971/72, all of which were entitled Kriemhild (cf. Rudloff 973, 974, 1007 and 1011).

Catalogue Raisonné

Gerhard Marcks works diary plaster/bronze no. 732; Rudloff 972

Provenance

Private possession, Hesse

Exhibitions

Berlin 1983 (Galerie Nierendorf), Gerhard Marcks. Dem grossen Bildhauer zum Gedächtnis, cat. no. 46 with illus. p. 28