Gerhard Marcks
Sich niedertuende Kuh
1949
Bronze sculpture Height 27 cm. Width 47.5 cm. Depth 12.5 cm Artist's mark under the belly and with foundry mark and cast number "RICH. BARTH BLN MARIENDORF II" under the neck. Cast II of 10 mentioned casts. - With beautiful dark brown patina.
This work will be auctioned off for the benefit of the Cardinal Meisner Foundation, Cologne, in order to sponsor the parishes in the Archdiocese of Cologne and in the countries of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe.
Catalogue Raisonné
Rudloff 533; Gerhard Marcks works diary Plaster/Bronze no. 343
Literature
i.a. Günter Busch, Gerhard Marcks. Bildwerke in Bronze 1946 - 1950, Hamburg 1951, p. 17 with illus.; Ludwig Grote, Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhunderts., Munich 1954, illus. pl. 67; Katalog Sammlung Hannover 1957 - Niedersächsische Landesgalerie, Katalog der Bildwerke, cat. no. 466 with illus.; Katalog Sammlung Mannheim 1957 - Verzeichnis der Skulpturensammlung, cat no. 59; Gerd von der Osten, Plastik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Königstein 1962, p. 8 with illus.
Exhibitions
i.a. Hamburg 1949 (Kunsthalle), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 13; Cologne 1949 (City of Cologne), Deutsche Malerei und Plastik der Gegenwart, cat. no. 449 with illus.; New York 1951 (Curt Valentin Gallery), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 26 with illus.; London 1952 (The Arts Council), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 20 with illus. 4; Cologne 1964 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 28 with illus.; Los Angeles 1969 (UCLA Art Galleries), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 15 with illus.