Ewald Mataré | Rundmedallion mit Hahn II

MATARé, EWALD
1887 Aachen - 1965 Büderich

Titel: Rundmedallion mit Hahn II.
Subtitle: Bronzerelief.
Date: Nach 1948 (design).
Technique: Bronze, light brown patinated.
Ø 53cm.
Artist's signet on the cock's claw.

This bronze with depicting a cock, which embodies vigilance, adorns the mosaic in the "Papsttür" in the southern portal of the Cologne Cathedral. This project was created in collaboration with Mataré's student Joseph Beuys.

Literature:
- Cf. Sabine Schilling, Ewald Mataré - Das plastische Werk, Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 1987, cat. rais. no. 318 (clay relief from 1948).
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