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Lot 1368 | August Gaul | Lying Bison
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4.000
- 6.000
€
D
Result:
(incl. premium)
7.920 €
GAUL, AUGUST
1869 Großauheim - 1921 Berlin
Title: Lying Bison.
Technique: Bronze, patinated brown.
Height: 21cm.
Notation: Inscribed on the plinth: A. Gaul 1906.
Literature:
cf.: J. Gabler: August Gaul. Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, Berlin 2007, p. 150ff, no. 136-1.
Exhibition cat. "August Gaul. The Alfons and Marianne Kottmann Collection", Museums of the City of Hanau 21.06 - 04.09.2011, p. 38.
Provenance:
Kottmann Collection, Hanau, acquired from the family estate of August Gaul's family doctor, Leonard Rautenberg.
As a commissioned work for the new building of the Kunsthalle Kiel, August Gaul produced two portal figures in the form of lying bisons between 1909 and 1913. A few years earlier he had already executed a monumental group of fighting bisons as a fountain in Königsberg. In this context, Gaul noted that he was very attracted by the contrast between these mighty primeval animals and their massive, resting bodies. As a result, plaster studies were made, which ultimately differed only in some details from the portal figures in Kiel, which were executed in shell limestone
1869 Großauheim - 1921 Berlin
Title: Lying Bison.
Technique: Bronze, patinated brown.
Height: 21cm.
Notation: Inscribed on the plinth: A. Gaul 1906.
Literature:
cf.: J. Gabler: August Gaul. Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, Berlin 2007, p. 150ff, no. 136-1.
Exhibition cat. "August Gaul. The Alfons and Marianne Kottmann Collection", Museums of the City of Hanau 21.06 - 04.09.2011, p. 38.
Provenance:
Kottmann Collection, Hanau, acquired from the family estate of August Gaul's family doctor, Leonard Rautenberg.
As a commissioned work for the new building of the Kunsthalle Kiel, August Gaul produced two portal figures in the form of lying bisons between 1909 and 1913. A few years earlier he had already executed a monumental group of fighting bisons as a fountain in Königsberg. In this context, Gaul noted that he was very attracted by the contrast between these mighty primeval animals and their massive, resting bodies. As a result, plaster studies were made, which ultimately differed only in some details from the portal figures in Kiel, which were executed in shell limestone
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Stock Id: 77374-2