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Lot Essay
"Oswald Herzog was an established Berlin artist by the time he became associated with the famous Sturm circle led by publisher and gallery owner Herwarth Walden, who sponsored an exhibition of the artist in the Galerie Der Sturm in 1919 ... As early as 1919 Herzog was included in the membership of the Novembergruppe whose political and artistic activities were the focal point of post-War cultural life in Berlin. He stressed that Futurism and Expressionism were to be succeeded by a Neue Sachlichkeit in which the artist would no longer allow his will to speak through the depiction of objects but would become like nature itself, his creative volition clothed in rhythmic, objective form. 'Rhythm is the proportion of time and space - the absolute law of growth and decay' he wrote later.
By 1920 the human form of his sculptures had dissolved more and more; individualized modelling was minimized and soon disappeared. By 1918-20, as can be seen in Knieende, the human figure had been elongated, twisted and distorted until it was only vaguely recognizable in its basic shape." (K. Breuer, German Expressionist Sculpture, Exh. cat., Los Angeles, 1984, p. 100.)
A larger version of this sculpture is housed in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
No death date is known for Herzog who seems to have died during the Second World War. His sculptures are rare.
By 1920 the human form of his sculptures had dissolved more and more; individualized modelling was minimized and soon disappeared. By 1918-20, as can be seen in Knieende, the human figure had been elongated, twisted and distorted until it was only vaguely recognizable in its basic shape." (K. Breuer, German Expressionist Sculpture, Exh. cat., Los Angeles, 1984, p. 100.)
A larger version of this sculpture is housed in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
No death date is known for Herzog who seems to have died during the Second World War. His sculptures are rare.