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Modern, Post War & Contemporary | Auction | 01.12.2021 | Preview: 26.11.2021 - 29.11.2021

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Lot 32 | Bernhard Hoetger | Untitled (Elberfelder Torso)

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4.000 - 6.000 €
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15.840 €

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HOETGER, BERNHARD
1874 Hörde - 1949 Interlaken

Titel: Untitled (Elberfelder Torso).
Date: 1909 (design)????.
Technique: Bronze, green-brown patinated.
Measurement: 86,5 x 38 x 28cm.
Notation: Signed on the buttocks left: B. Hoetger.

This bronze is one of two estate casts of the first version of the "Elberfelder Torso", here worked without arm relief (cf. cat. rais. Werner 58).

In July 2021, the "Plane Tree Grove", artistically designed by Hoetger in 1911 as part of the Mathildenhöhe park in Darmstadt, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Werner Wolfgang: 50 Plastiken aus den Pariser Jahren 1900 - 1910, with catalogue raisonné, Bremen 1977, cat. rais. no. 58
- Cf. Roselius, Ludwig jr.: Bernhard Hoetger, 1874-1949, Sein Leben und Schaffen, Bremen 1974, cat. rais. no. 47

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Stock Id: 74066-1