Geneigter Frauenkopf

Details

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919)
Geneigter Frauenkopf
signed and stamped with the foundry mark 'W. LEHMBRUCK H. NOACK BERLIN.FRIEDENAU' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
19 1/8in. (48.5cm.) high
Conceived in 1911 and cast in the 1920s

Provenance

Bought from the Lehmbruck family by the present owner's parents circa 1948.

Literature

A. Hoff, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Life and Work, London, 1969 (another cast illustrated p. 83).
R. Heller, The Art of Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Washington, 1972, no. 23 (another cast illustrated, p. 43).
D. Schubert, Die Kunst Lehmbrucks, Worms, 1981, p. 154.

Exhibited

Berne, Kunsthalle (on loan).

Lot Essay

Geneigter Frauenkopf is derived from Lehmbruck's celebrated sculpture Knieende which he conceived in Paris in 1911. A version was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne that year.

Another Valsuani cast of this piece, formerly in the Artist's Estate, is now in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.

We are grateful to Professor Dieter Schubert for his help in cataloguing this work.

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