Bronze sculpture on black marble base. Height 27.5 cm. With artist's mark on plinth at rear right as well as with foundry mark "RICH. BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF" on back of plinth. One of probably 9 casts. - With dark brown, partially bronze coloured patina.
Marcks work-diary plaster/bronze 366; Rudloff 562
Several woodcuts with this motif preceded the sculpture ("Almtanz", 1924 (Lammek H 118) as well as "Schuhplattler", 1950 (Lammek H 214)).
Literature
A. Rieth, Gerhard Marcks, Recklinghausen 1959, p. 27 with ill. p. 44; J. Müller, preface in: Exhib. cat. Karl Marx Stadt 1957, Städt. Kunstsammlung, Gerhard Marcks
Exhibitions
i.a. Hanover 1952 (Kestner-Gesellschaft), Alte Möbel - neue Bilder (without cat.); Bielefeld 1952 (Städt. Kunsthaus), Moderne Plastik, cat. nr. 61; Wiesbaden 1953 (Neues Museum), Kunst am Rhein, cat. nr. 136; Mannheim 1953 (Kunsthalle Mannheim), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 50; Hagen 1953 (Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 42; Frankfurt 1954 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 45; Cologne 1957 (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 10; Berlin (East) 1958 (National-Galerie), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 55; Heidelberg 1961 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 33; New York 1967 (Leonard Hutton Galleries), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 79; Rostock 1974 (Kunsthalle), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 15 with ill.; Rostock and Halle 1974 (Kunsthalle resp. Staatl. Galerie Moritzburg), Gerhard Marcks, each cat. nr. 22; Reutlingen 1975 (Townhall), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 14