August Gaul Lot n° 122

August Gaul Donkey rider (small) 1912 Bronze. Height 16.3 cm. Signed on the plinth 'A. GAUL', on the reverse on the side edge of the plinth with the foundry stamp "NOACK BERLIN". - With light, golden-brown patina. Gabler 179 Provenance Private property Baden-Württemberg Exhibitions Cf. inter alia Berlin/Hamburg/Hanau 1999/2000 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Ernst Barlach Haus/Museen der Stadt Hanau), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, cat. No. 54 with color illus.; Frankfurt a.M. 2010 (Museum Giersch), Die Bildhauer August Gaul und Fritz Klimsch, Cat. No. 27 with color illus. The donkey, which the Gaul family had owned since 1907, served the artist as a model for his "Eselei" as early as 1911 (Gabler 158 ff.). In the same year, he worked the small figure of the donkey rider, for which Gaul's son Peter was the model, into a large version (Gabler 180).