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Fritz Koenig
Karyatide II, 1965.
Bronze with black brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,500 Sold:
€ 22,860 / $ 24,003 (incl. surcharge)
Karyatide II. 1965.
Bronze with black brown patina.
Monogrammed and numbered on the side. Copy II/III, the catalogue raisonné mentions 5 casts. 30 x 29 x 17 cm (11.8 x 11.4 x 6.6 in). [EH].
• Fritz Koenig interprets the caryatid form, which was already widespread in antiquity, in a unique way.
• The composition can be found in a slightly modified form in the monumental "Caryatid I" placed in front of the University of Bayreuth.
• The year before “Caryatid II” was created, Fritz Koenig took part in documenta III in Kassel.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, no. 358, illustrated on p. 104 (different copy).
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Peter-Klaus Schuster, Fritz Koenig. Skulptur und Zeichnung, exhib. cat. Munich/Berlin 1988/89, p. 16 ( illustrated, presumably a different copy).
Bronze with black brown patina.
Monogrammed and numbered on the side. Copy II/III, the catalogue raisonné mentions 5 casts. 30 x 29 x 17 cm (11.8 x 11.4 x 6.6 in). [EH].
• Fritz Koenig interprets the caryatid form, which was already widespread in antiquity, in a unique way.
• The composition can be found in a slightly modified form in the monumental "Caryatid I" placed in front of the University of Bayreuth.
• The year before “Caryatid II” was created, Fritz Koenig took part in documenta III in Kassel.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany.
LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, no. 358, illustrated on p. 104 (different copy).
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Peter-Klaus Schuster, Fritz Koenig. Skulptur und Zeichnung, exhib. cat. Munich/Berlin 1988/89, p. 16 ( illustrated, presumably a different copy).
In 1965, Fritz Koenig "took up the motif of the carrier figure in the Caryatids [..], which had already been touched on in the 'Gerahmte Figuren' and the 'Votiven.' They do not have a structural context and are not shaped according to traditional models but rather illustrate the theme of carrying, burdening, and being pressed in an abstract formulation. Twisted, proliferating forms appear - in place of the figure in the 'Votives' - between strict cubic forms, now marking the zones of radiation of force, changes of force and direction." (quoted from: Peter-Klaus Schuster, Fritz Koenig. Skulptur und Zeichnung, Munich/Berlin 1988/89, pp. 16f.)
308
Fritz Koenig
Karyatide II, 1965.
Bronze with black brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,500 Sold:
€ 22,860 / $ 24,003 (incl. surcharge)
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