August Gaul - Standing bear

August Gaul

Standing bear

Bronze.
Dark brown patina. Good condition. The base dented at lower corners. H 23.4 cm. Mounted on marble base (8.3 x 11.8 x 12.2 cm).

Between 1917 and 1918, 12 purchases and sales are documented in the Cassirer Gallery, presumably no recent casts exist.

Literature

Catalogue raisonné Gabler 251.
Et.al. Emil Waldmann, August Gaul, Berlin 1919 with ill.; Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul. Leben und Werk, Phil. Diss. (typescript), Leipzig 1961, no. 69; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Arbeiten von August Gaul, in: Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, exhib. cat. Berlin 1999, no. 65.

Exhibitions

Cf. et.al. Berlin 1918, Freie Secession; Berlin/Hamburg/Hanau 1999 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Ernst Barlach Haus/Museen der Stadt Hanau), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, cat. no. 76 with col. ill. p. 113; Frankfurt am Main 2010 (Museum Giersch), Die Bildhauer August Gaul und Fritz Klimsch, cat. no. 94 with col. ill.