Lot 124001292
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124001292
Fritz Koenig
Karyatide II, 1965.
Bronze with black brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000
$ 11,000 - 16,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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.)
124001292
Fritz Koenig
Karyatide II, 1965.
Bronze with black brown patina
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000
$ 11,000 - 16,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
