Schwebender Gottvater. 1922.
Sculpture. Stoneware.
Laur 353 1 (of 2). Schult 276. With artist's name in left of base. With trademark of porcelain manufactory Meißen on verso, also on base, there also with stamp "Böttger Steinzeug", model number "A 1070" and numbers "128" and "L. 230". There also inscribed "11523/1928" in red as well as twice inscribed "Kunstgewerbe-Museum Flensburg" in chalk, barely legible. Copy from an edition from 1923, total number unklnown. 50,5 x 31,5 x 51 cm (19,8 x 12,4 x 20 in).
Made in the studio of porcelain manufactory Meißen. Another copy of the plastic in Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, in Grassi Museum, Leipzig, and in Museum Ludwig, Cologne. [KH].

We are grateful to Ernst Barlach, Ernst Barlach licence administration, Ratzeburg, for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Collection Max Fischer, Stuttgart.

LITERATURE: Friedrich Droß (publisher), Ernst Barlach. Die Briefe II. 1925-1938, Munich 1969, no. 1159, p. 849.
Elisabeth Laur, Der Bildhauer als Buchkünstler, in: ex. cat. Kunsthalle Bremen 2001, pp. 34 ff.