August Gaul
Sitzender junger Löwe (Dusselchen)
1898
Bronze sculpture Height 14.9 cm Signed 'A. Gaul' in the centre of the cast-with plinth. Probably one of about 15 lifetime casts created between 1903 and 1906. - The fine dark brown patina partially lightened.
Catalogue Raisonné
Gabler 41
Provenance
Private possession, Berlin
Literature
I.a. Hans Rosenhagen, Bildwerke von August Gaul, Berlin 1905, p. 23 with illus.; Curt Glaser, August Gaul, in: Die Kunst XXVIII, 1913, p. 234 with illus.; Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul, Phil. Dissertation, Leipzig 1961, no. 13; Angelo Walther. August Gaul, Leipzig 1973, illus. 10; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Arbeiten von August Gaul, in: Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, Berlin 1999, no. 14; Bestandskatalog der Nationalgalerie Berlin, XIXth century, Berlin 2006, no. 294; Katalog der Bildwerke in der Niedersächsichen Landesgalerie Hanover, Munich 1957, no. 426
Exhibitions
I.a. Berlin 1900 (Berlin Secession); Dresden 1901 (International Art Exhibition); Berlin 1919 (Galerie Cassirer), special exhibition August Gaul; Berlin 1922 (Akademie der Künste/Paul Cassirer), August Gaul Memorial Exhibition; Berlin/Hamburg/Hanau 1999 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Ernst Barlach Haus/Museen der Stadt Hanau), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, cat. no. 3, full-page colour illus. p. 86