Sale: 429 / Post War / Contemporary Art, Dec. 04./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 301


301
Bernhard Heiliger
Figur mit erhobenen Armen I, 1949.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,800
Sold:
€ 11,250 / $ 12,375

(incl. surcharge)
Figur mit erhobenen Armen I. 1949.
Bronze with dark brown patina, mounted on wooden base.
Wellmann 105. Lower right with name as well as with number "VI" on base and with foundry stamp "Rich. Barth Bln. Mariendorf". One of 8 bronze casts. Ca. 26.5 x 9.5 x 8.5 cm (10.4 x 3.7 x 3.3 in). Base: ca. 2,5 x 10,8 x 11 cm (1 x 4,2 x 4,3 in).
Another bronze is in possession of the collection Museum Ludwig in Cologne, a ceramic variant is in possession fo the Kunsthalle, Hamburg . [JS].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: (selection; presumably each different copy)
Bernhard Heiliger, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 1950, cat. no. 16 (with illu.).
Bernhard Heiliger, Kunstverein Freiburgn im Breisgau, 1955, cat. no. 42.
Bernhard Heiliger, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 1955, cat. no. 6.

LITERATURE: (selection; presumably each different copy)
Gert van der Osten/Horst Keller (editor), catalog of Wallraf-Richartz-Museums, Cologne 1965, S. 145.
Handbuch Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1979, p. 29.
Die dritte Dimension, inventory catalog of sculpture department of Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1988, p. 206.
Siegfried Salzmann/Lothar Romain, Bernhard Heiliger, Frankfurt am Mein/Berlin 1989, p. 45, illu. 6.
Markus Krause, Karl Hartung 1908-1967, Munich 1998, p. 83.




301
Bernhard Heiliger
Figur mit erhobenen Armen I, 1949.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,800
Sold:
€ 11,250 / $ 12,375

(incl. surcharge)