Der Rächer (The Avenger), conceived 1914,Ernst Barlach

Ernst Barlach
(German, 1870-1938)
Der Rächer (The Avenger), conceived 1914

bronze with brown patina
inscribed by the artist E. Barlach and stamped with foundry mark H. Noack Berlin (rear edge of the base)
Height: 17 1/2 inches.
This lot is located in Chicago.
Fine Art inscribed by the artist E. Barlach and stamped with foundry mark H. Noack Berlin (rear edge of the base)
This cast is likely to be one of the 22 unnumbered examples that were cast posthumously after 1939.

Literature:
Friedrich Schult, Ernst Barlach: Werkverzeichnis: Das plastische Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 167, p. 109 (another cast illustrated)
Peter Paret, An Artist Against the Third Reich, Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, Cambridge, 2003, no. 11 (another cast illustrated)
Elisabeth Laur (ed.), Ernst Barlach, Das plastische Werk, vol. II, Güstrow, 2006, no. 229, pp. 141-142 (another cast illustrated)
Roman Zieglgänsberger (ed.), Zwischen Brücke und Blauem Reiter, Hanna Bekker vom Rath als Wegbereiterin der Moderne, exh. cat., Museum Wiesbaden, Cologne, 2014, p. 182 (another cast illustrated)