Ewald Mataré
Ewald Mataré
1887 - 1965
Kleine liegende Kuh. 1929.
Bronze with brown patina.
Bearing the artist’s signature on the base. According to the catalogue raisonné (2024), 28 other copies are known to exist alongside this one. 7 x 26.5 x 11 cm (2.7 x 10.4 x 4.3 in).
Other copies can be found at, among others, the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, the Sander Collection in Darmstadt, and the Karl H. Knauf Collection in Berlin. [EH].
• A perfectly formed piece of sculptural art by the great master of animal depiction.
• Cows and horses are his preferred motifs and symbolize wholeness and harmony, which is impressively reflected in the cohesive form.
• Ewald Mataré made a significant contribution to German sculpture, particularly with his works from the 1920s and 1930s.
PROVENANCE: Foster / White Gallery, Seattle (WA) (inside with remnants of a label).
Galerie Schwarzer, Düsseldorf.
Private collection North Rhine-Westpfahlia (since 1999, acquired from the above).
In the family’s possession ever since.
EXHIBITION: (different copy in each case)
Ewald Mataré. Plastik, Holschnitte, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen 1920–1929, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 24a.
Ewald Mataré. Neue Plastik und Holzschnitte, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, 1931, cat. no. 4.
Ewald Mataré, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern / Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, 1981, cat. no. 16.
Ewald Mataré Plastik. A Private Collection from the Rhineland, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2010, Cat. No. 5.
Mein Rasierspiegel—From Holthuys to Beuys, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2012, cat. no. 3.16 (with ill.).
LITERATURE: Sabine M. Schilling, Ewald Mataré. Das plastische Werk, neubearbeitet und ergänzt, vol. II, Cologne 2024, CR no. 63a (56a), (with an illustration of a different copy).
Sabine M. Schilling, Ewald Mataré. Das plastische Werk, Cologne 1987, CR no. 56a.
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Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekoek-Haus Kleve e.V., Ewald Mataré at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve 1997, no. 29 (presumably a different copy).
"I am carving a reclining cow. An animal that never ceases to fascinate me—this animal is entirely devoid of thought, entirely sensation, and thus it rises up, grand and pure."
Ewald Mataré, 1925, quoted from: Gisela Fiedler-Bender, Ewald Mataré, Kaiserslautern/Heilbronn 1981.
Ewald Mataré
1887 - 1965
Kleine liegende Kuh. 1929.
Bronze with brown patina.
Bearing the artist’s signature on the base. According to the catalogue raisonné (2024), 28 other copies are known to exist alongside this one. 7 x 26.5 x 11 cm (2.7 x 10.4 x 4.3 in).
Other copies can be found at, among others, the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, the Sander Collection in Darmstadt, and the Karl H. Knauf Collection in Berlin. [EH].
• A perfectly formed piece of sculptural art by the great master of animal depiction.
• Cows and horses are his preferred motifs and symbolize wholeness and harmony, which is impressively reflected in the cohesive form.
• Ewald Mataré made a significant contribution to German sculpture, particularly with his works from the 1920s and 1930s.
PROVENANCE: Foster / White Gallery, Seattle (WA) (inside with remnants of a label).
Galerie Schwarzer, Düsseldorf.
Private collection North Rhine-Westpfahlia (since 1999, acquired from the above).
In the family’s possession ever since.
EXHIBITION: (different copy in each case)
Ewald Mataré. Plastik, Holschnitte, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen 1920–1929, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 24a.
Ewald Mataré. Neue Plastik und Holzschnitte, Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, 1931, cat. no. 4.
Ewald Mataré, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern / Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, 1981, cat. no. 16.
Ewald Mataré Plastik. A Private Collection from the Rhineland, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2010, Cat. No. 5.
Mein Rasierspiegel—From Holthuys to Beuys, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2012, cat. no. 3.16 (with ill.).
LITERATURE: Sabine M. Schilling, Ewald Mataré. Das plastische Werk, neubearbeitet und ergänzt, vol. II, Cologne 2024, CR no. 63a (56a), (with an illustration of a different copy).
Sabine M. Schilling, Ewald Mataré. Das plastische Werk, Cologne 1987, CR no. 56a.
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Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus and Koekoek-Haus Kleve e.V., Ewald Mataré at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve 1997, no. 29 (presumably a different copy).
"I am carving a reclining cow. An animal that never ceases to fascinate me—this animal is entirely devoid of thought, entirely sensation, and thus it rises up, grand and pure."
Ewald Mataré, 1925, quoted from: Gisela Fiedler-Bender, Ewald Mataré, Kaiserslautern/Heilbronn 1981.
