Lot no. 25
Gerhard Marcks
Berlin 1889 – 1981 Burgbrohl/Eifel
„Weltangst“
1919
Chestnut wood
Signed and inscribed in pencil on the underside of the base: Marcks Weimar
Lyonel Feininger, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin and New York / Julia Feininger, New York / T. Lux Feininger, New York / Feininger family, USA
Freie Secession. Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, 1920, cat. no. 253
Height (without base): 70 cm
27 1/2 in.
„Weltangst“
1919
Kastanienholz
Paul Westheim: Gegenstandslose Kunst. Das Kunstblatt, 1921, year V, vol. 4, p. 120 with illustration / Exh. cat. Gerhard Marcks 1889-1981. Retrospective exhibition. Köln, Museum Ludwig in der Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie; Bremen, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, 1989/90, p. 32, ill. p. 34 (not exhibited) / Ulrich Luckhardt: Geschnitzt aus der Kastanie, die vor dem Bauhaus stand. Grisebach. Das Journal, issue 3, autumn 2013, p. 6-11, ill. p. 6
Höhe (ohne Sockel): 70 cm
27 1/2 in.
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