Fritz Klimsch Lot n° 124

Fritz Klimsch Girl with scarf 1913 Bronze. Height 80.5 cm. Signed on the reverse of the cast plinth 'F. Klimsch' and next to it with the foundry stamp "STRASSACKER / KUNSTGUSS SÜSSEN" and quality mark. - With beautiful black patina, lightened to bronze in a few places. Isolated traces of wear. Brown 79 Provenance Lempertz, Cologne, Auction Modern Art 805, June 1, 2001, lot 826; Private collection Rhineland Literature Cf. Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel, Die Ausstellung der Freien Secession in Berlin, in: Die Kunst für Alle, vol. 29, Berlin 1913/14, p. 465 ff., ill. p. 472; exhib. Cat. of the Free Secession, Berlin 1914, p. 54, no. 318; exhib. Cat. Sommerausstellung der Freien Secession: Fritz Klimsch, Berlin 1920, p. 37, no. 275; Hermann Braun, Fritz Klimsch. Werke, Hanover 1980, p. 39, no. 11, ill. p. 38