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Lot 343 Dα

Ernst Barlach - Der Blinde

Auction 1059 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 €
Result: 9.920 € (incl. premium)

Ernst Barlach

Der Blinde
1935

Stucco cast, with yellowish colouring. Relief figure with carved out hollow back side Height 55.4 cm Verso inscribed "Dross" by an unknown hand. One of 5 stucco casts after the plaster from 1935. The plaster served as a working model for the wooden version, which Barlach created in 1935 for the "Fries der Lauschenden" (Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg).

Catalogue Raisonné

Laur 580/2; Schult 458

Provenance

Presumably Collection Friedrich Droß, Bremen; Private collection, Rhineland; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 362, 8 December 2001, lot 422; Privat collection, Bavaria

Exhibitions

Bremen 1959 (Kunsthalle), Ernst Barlach, cat. no. 32 ("Krückenbettler"); Schleswig 1989 (Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf), Ernst Barlach. Denkzeichen, cat. no. 80; Bremen/Güstrow 2001 (Gerhard Marcks Haus/Ernst Barlach Stiftung), Die Gemeinschaft der Heiligen. Der Figurenzyklus an der Katharinenkirche zu Lübeck und das monumentale Werk Ernst Barlachs, cat. no. 18