Hans Wimmer
Rumänisches Mädchen
1945
Bronze Height 26.8 cm Monogrammed 'W' on the back of the slender plinth. Probably one of 9 casts. - With dark brown, partially slightly lightened patina. - The patina partially slightly rubbed with whitish inlays.
The sculpture was based on a pencil drawing from 1944, which now belongs to the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen. The original plaster version of the figure can be found in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Schloss Gottorf.
Catalogue Raisonné
Kuhl 118
Certificate
With a photo confirmation by the artist, dated Munich 29 June 1982
Literature
Hans Konrad Röthel, Der Bildhauer Hans Wimmer, Munich 1964, p. 59, Ann. 24; Günter Busch, Hans Wimmer. Zeichnungen, Munich/Zurich 1982, plate 64 (sketch for the bronze)
Exhibitions
Bamberg 1947 (Neue Residenz), Neue Kunst der Gegenwart, cat. no. 115; Nürnberg 1947 (Fränkische Galerie), Kunst mit neuen Augen, cat. no. 140; Munich/Nurnberg 1977 (Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst/Germanisches Nationalmuseum), Hans Wimmer. Zum 70. Geburtstag, cat. no. 11 with illus.; Schleswig 1993 (Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf), Hans Wimmer. Das Atelier: Original-Modelle, Bronzen, Zeichnerische Studien, Dokumente, cat. no. 11 with colour illus. (original model for the bronze)