Christoph Voll
Ruhende
Circa 1930
White Carrara marble Height 48 cm Unsigned. Unique piece. Aside from the marble, there are two versions in red and black granite, both varying in size, and a plaster version.
Christoph Voll was born in Munich as the son of a sculptor and a painter. As a 15-year-old Voll began an apprenticeship as a sculptor in Dresden; after WW1, he continued his training at the academy in Dresden. In 1920, the artist joined the “Dresden Secession Group 1919” where he became close friends with artists like Otto Dix and Conrad Felixmüller. In 1924 Voll moved to Saarbrücken, where he was named a professor the following year, but moved again in 1928, after winning the chair in sculpture at the Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe. The 1920s were defined by a very active participation in exhibitions. During this period, Voll created expressively realistic sculptures predominantly in wood. From 1928, Voll turned to stone as his primary material and created a series of female nudes like the offered “Ruhende”, in which a powerful, quiescent sensuality stands in contrast to the hardness of the stone.
Catalogue Raisonné
Kassay-Friedländer 92
Certificate
We would like to thank Kristoffer Damgaard, Christoph Voll Nachlass Sammlung (estate collection), Copenhagen, for confirmatory and additional information.
Provenance
Estate of the artist; Private possession, Denmark
Literature
Wilhelm Weber, Der Bildhauer Christoph Voll, Milan 1975, with full-page illus. no. 31; Anne-Marie Kassay-Friedländer, Der Bildhauer Christoph Voll, 1897-1939, Worms 1994, p. 168 f.
Exhibitions
Munich/Milan 1981 (Galleria del Levante), Christoph Voll. Skulpturen, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, with full-page illus. p. 27