LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Bronze

Measurements:

19.49 in. (49.50 cm.) (height)

Edition:

Ed of 57

Markings:

Signed 'E. Barlach' as well as foundry stamp H. NOACK BERLIN''on the right foot verso

Condition:

scratchesd in some place in the area of the hea

Exhibited:

Exhibitions According to Laur casts can be found in the following museum collections: Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland/Ohio USA; Museum am Ostwall Dortmund; Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg; Sprengel Museum Hanover; Kunsthalle Kiel; Museum Ludwig Cologne; Kunsthalle Mannheim; Pinakothek der Moderne Munich; Lyman Allyn Museum New London/Connecticut USA; Museum of Modern Art New York USA; Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg; Schloss Gottorf Schleswig; Staatliches Museum Schwerin; Rathaus Wedel private possession (a numbered cast 4/10); Ernst Barlach Stiftung Güstrow; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal

Literature:

Literature I.a.: Bronzen von Ernst Barlach Galerie Flechtheim November/ Dezember 1930 exhib. cat. Berlin/Düsseldorf 1930 no. 19; Alfred H. Barr Omnibus German Sculpture Berlin/Düsseldorf 1932 pp. 38-42; Marguerite Devigne Ernst Barlach in: Les Beaux-Arts Brussels 1935 p. 14; Carl Dietrich Carls Ernst Barlach Das plastische graphische und dichterische Werk 5th ed. Flensburg/Hamburg 1950 p. 58; Paul Fechter Ernst Barlach Gütersloh 1957 p. 35; Franz Fühmann (ed.) Ernst Barlach Das Wirkliche und Wahrhaftige Wiesbaden 1970 p. 159; Kunstblätter der Galerie Nierendorf Ernst Barlach. Plastik Zeichnungen Graphik 13 Sept. - 5 Dec. 1978 Berlin September 1978 cat. no. 41 with illus. no. 21 (this exemplar); Anita Beloubek-Hammer Ernst Barlach Plastische Meisterwerke Leipzig 1996 p. 116 f.; Helga Thieme Ernst Barlachs Skulptur "Der singende Mann" in der Ausstellung "Neue deutsche Kunst" Oslo 1932 in: exhib. cat. Rostock 1998 p. 310 ff.

Provenance:

Provenance Private collection Lower Saxony; Villa Grisebach auction no. 130 Ausgewählte Werke Berlin 25 November 2005 lot 27; European private collection