August Gaul
Standing bear
1917
Bronze. Height... Lot 123
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August Gaul
Standing bear
1917
Bronze. Height 23.4 cm. Mounted on a marble base (8.3 x 11.8 x 12.2 cm). Signed on the side of the right hind leg 'A. GAUL' ON THE RIGHT HIND LEG. Between 1917 and 1918, 12 purchases and sales are documented in the Cassirer Gallery, presumably no more recent casts exist. - With dark brown patina. In good condition. The base bumped at the lower corners.
Gabler 251
Exhibitions
Cf. e.g. Berlin 1918, Freie Secession; Berlin/Hamburg/Hanau 1999 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Ernst Barlach Haus/Museen der Stadt Hanau), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, cat. No. 76 with color illus. p. 113; Frankfurt am Main 2010 (Museum Giersch), Die Bildhauer August Gaul und Fritz Klimsch, Cat. No. 94 with color illus.
Literature
Among others Emil Waldmann, August Gaul, Berlin 1919 with illus.; Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul. Leben und Werk, Phil. Diss. (typescript), Leipzig 1961, no. 69; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Arbeiten von August Gaul, in: Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, exhib. Cat. Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin 1999, no. 65
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