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Lot 344 Dα

Ernst Barlach - Die lesenden Mönche II (Die Buchleser)

Auction 1070 - overview Cologne
03.06.2016, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 €
Result: 8.680 € (incl. premium)
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Ernst Barlach

Die lesenden Mönche II (Die Buchleser)
1921

Bronze 14 x 12.2 x 7.8 cm Signed 'E. Barlach' on the right-hand side of the robe's hem. Foundry mark "H.NOACK BERLIN" verso lower left. Cast from an unnumbered total edition of 20. - With dark brown patina.

Catalogue Raisonné

Laur 320; Schult 249

Provenance

Estate Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg; Private possession since, North Germany

Literature

Friedrich Droß (ed.), Ernst Barlach, Die Briefe II (1925-1938), Munich 1969, p. 835, no. 996; Carl Dietrich Carls, Ernst Barlach. Das plastische, graphische und dichterische Werk, 5th edition Flensburg/Hamburg 1950, p. 58; Gert von der Osten, Bildwerke in der Landesgalerie Hannover, Hannover 1957, no. 439; Hans-Werner Schmidt and Peter Thurmann (ed.), Ernst Barlach, Mehr als Ich, Ausst. Kunsthalle Kiel, Bielefeld 1998, p. 84

Exhibitions

Cf. i.a.: Berlin/Düsseldorf 1930 (Galerie Flechtheim), cat. no. 14; Hannover 1931 (Kestner Gesellschaft), cat. p. 2; Hamburg 1948 (Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann), cat. no. 11; Düsseldorf 1951 (Galerie Alex Vömel), cat. no. 17