Gustav Seitz - Kleine Kniende - image-1

Lot 397 D

Gustav Seitz - Kleine Kniende

Auction 1051 - overview Cologne
29.05.2015, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 8.060 € (incl. premium)

Gustav Seitz

Kleine Kniende
1962

Bronze Height 30.6 cm Signed 'Seitz' on the sole of the right foot. One of 5 casts in total. Posthumous cast. - Dark brown patina.

As a work comissioned by the city of Hamburg for the Internationale Gartenschau, Seitz transfered the motif of the "Kleine Knienden" into a larger-than-life version in 1963 - the "Große Kniende", which was first positioned at Hamburg's ramparts and later in the Alsterpark (see Grohn 157).

Catalogue Raisonné

Grohn 156

Certificate

We would like to thank Bernd Schälicke, Gustav Seitz Stiftung Hamburg, for the kind information.

Provenance

Galerie Margarete Lauter, Mannheim (acquired 1994); since then in private possession, Rhineland

Exhibitions

Hamburg/Güstrow/Lübeck/Berlin 2006/07 (Ernst Barlach Haus/Ernst Barlach Stiftung/Museum Behnhaus/Drägerhaus/Georg-Kolbe-Museum), Gustav Seitz. Plastik und Zeichnungen. Von Liebe und Schmerz, cat. no. 66 with illus. p. 60