Fussballspieler. 1927.
Bronze with brown patina.
Plinth with signature. With the foundry mark "H NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU" on the reverse of the plinth (barely legible). Height: 40.5 cm (15.9 in).

• This figure won Renée Sintenis third prize in the 1928 Olympic art competition in Amsterdam.
• The 1920s saw the creation of an important series of sports figures.
• Power and playful ease are captured in extreme movements.
• Another copy can be found in the collection of the Nationalgalerie Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Ausstellung von Skulpturen, Zeichnungen und graphischen Werken von Renée Sintenis zum 90.Geburtstag, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf, March 15 - April 30, 1978, no page (illustrated, different copy).
Renée Sintenis. Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Kolbe-Museum Berlin; Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück; Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg; Museen der Stadt, Hanau; Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, 1983/84, cat. no. 27 (illustration 80, different copy).

LITERATURE: Ursel Berger, Günter Ladwig, Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Berlin 2013, catalogue raisonné no. 092 (illustrated).
Britta E. Buhlmann, Renée Sintenis. Werkmonographie der Skulpturen, Darmstadt 1987, catalogue raisonné no. 50 (illustrated).
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The H. Collection, Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, July 20-25, 1931; Galerie Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, August 24 - 31, 1931, cat. no. 96 (illustrated on plate XLVIII, different copy)
Hanna Kiel (ed.), Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1935, p. 34 (illustrated on p. 49).
Rudolf Hagelstange, Carl Georg Heise and Paul Appel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1947 (illustrated on p. 70, different copy).
Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, October 12, 2019 - January 12, 2020, cat. no. 26 (illustrated in color on p. 101, different copy).