Bronze figure. Height 225 cm. On the back of the plinth at right with the artist's mark and verso at edge of plinth with the foundry mark "H. NOACK BERLIN". - With dark, partly lightened bronze coloured patina.
- Very rare; the catalogue raisonné counts only 8 unnumbered casts, from which the most are property of international museums, and one cast 'A' in a gallery.
Gerhard Marcks, work-diary plaster/Bronze, no. 253; Rudloff 413
Catalogue Raisonné
413 Rudloff
Provenance
Private property Rhineland
Literature
Bildende Kunst, 1947, vol. 1, issue 8, p. 27, with ill.; Stimulation, Besprechung der Ausstellung 'Gerhard Marcks' im Kunstverein Hamburg 1949, in: Time, 1949, year's issue. 53, issue 12, p. 29; Frank Thiess, Gerhard Marcks, Ein Bildhauer von europäischer Größe, in: Thema, 1949, year's issue III, p. 31 with ill. p. 30; R. Sturgis Ingersoll, Notice of the acqusitions of Marcks' sculpture, in: Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, Annual Report, Sommer 1949, vol. 44, No. 222, p. 51ff.; Notice of aquisitions of Marcks' sculpture, in : St. Louis City Art Museum, Annual Report, 1951, vol. 42, p. 47ff.; Ingeborg Donati, Eine Statue wird gegossen, in: Westermanns Monatshefte, 1954, year's issue. 95, issue 3, p. 43, with ill.; Adolf Rieth, Gerhard Marcks, Recklinghausen 1959, p. 18; Sammlungskatalog der Staatl. Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1968, cat. No. 292; Alfred Werner, Gerhard Marcks, in: American Artist, 1971 with ill. p. 34
Exhibitions
amongst others: Berlin 1946 (Zeughaus), 1. Deutsche Kunstausstellung der Deutschen Zentralverwaltung für Volksbildung in der SBZ, cat. No. 334 (plaster); Dresden 1946 (Kulturbund Sachsen), Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstausstellung, with ill. 51 (plaster); Hamburg 1949 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. No. 48; Gerhard Marcks; New York 1949 (Curt Valentin Gallery New York); Berlin 1950 (Schloß Charlottenburg), Berliner Neue Gruppe 1950, cat. No. 154 with ill.; Hannover 1951 (Kestner-Gesellschaft), Deutsche Bildhauer der Gegenwart, cat. No. 62; Venedig 1952 (XXVI. Biennale), cat. No. 111; Minneapolis 1953 (Walker Art Center), Gerhard Marcks, cat. No. 25; Brussels 1958 (Weltausstellung); Hannover 1960 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. No. 18 with ill.; Los Angeles 1969 (UCLA Art Galleries), Gerhard Marcks, cat. No. 9 with ill; Cologne 1969 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. No. 1 with ill.