August Gaul - Zwei Pinguine

August Gaul

Zwei Pinguine
Circa 1914

Bronze Height 30.2 cm Signed 'A. GAUL' on plinth to rear left and numbered below on edge of plinth 'X'. Apart from 4 acquistions and sales at the Galerie Cassirer between 1919 and 1921, an edition of 10 casts was acquired by Cassirer in 1922. Probably no later casts. - In their conception, the figures are closely related to Gaul's penguins for the Hamburg city park (Gabler 199). - The lively bronze-coloured patina partially lightened.

List of works

Gabler 201

Provenance

Gronert Kunsthandel, Berlin; Private possession, Berlin

Literature

Welt-Spiegel no. 49, 9 November 1919, p. 2 with illus.; Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul. Leben und Werk. Phil. Diss. (typoscript), Leipzig 1961, cat. no. 186; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Bronzen (no. 69), in: Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, Ausstellungskatalog Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin 199, p. 61-75; Ursula Heiderich, Katalog der Skulpturen der Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1993, p. 215; Schlesisches Museum der bildenden Künste Breslau, Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Wroclaw 1926

Exhibitions

Berlin 1919 (Galerie Cassirer), Sonderausstellung August Gaul