August Gaul - Schreitendes Reh. Sicherndes Reh

August Gaul

Schreitendes Reh. Sicherndes Reh
Circa 1918

2 Bronzes Height each 32.2 cm Each signed 'A. GAUL' on the cast-with plinth. Apart from two acquistions and sales each at Galerie Cassirer in 1920/1921, an edition of 10 casts each was acquired by Cassirer in 1922. Probably barley any later casts. - The figures are based on draft models for Gaul's Walter Leistikow monument from 1913 (Gabler 188-190). - The fine bronze-coloured patina partially lightened.

List of works

Gabler 266, 267

Provenance

Gronert Kunsthandel, Berlin; Private possession, Berlin

Literature

Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul. Leben und Werk. Phil. Diss. (typoscript), Leipzig 1961, cat. no. 132/133; Angelo Walther, August Gaul, Leipzig 1973, illus. no. 74 [only "Schreitendes Reh"]; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Bronzen (Nr. 71), in: Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, Ausstellungskatalog Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin 199, p. 61-75; Herwig Guratzsch (ed.), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Katalog der Bildwerke, Cologne 1999, cat. no. 241 [only "Schreitendes Reh"]

Exhibitions

Berlin 1919 (Akademie der Künste); Berlin 1919 (Galerie Cassirer), Sonderausstellung August Gaul