Polospieler II. 1929.
Bronze with brown patina.
With signature on the plinth. With the foundry mark “NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU” on the reverse of the plinth. Height: 40 cm (15.7 in). [EH].

• Renée Sintenis was presumably the first German artist to create a sculpture of a polo player.
• The rider and horse flex their muscles at a moment of intense concentration.
• Another copy is found in the Nationalgalerie Berlin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Berliner Neue Gruppe, exhibition at Charlottenburg Palace, cat. no. 179 (illustrated, different copy).
Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, March 19 - April 27, 1958, cat. no. 41 (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. 37, illustrations 81, 82 (different copy).
Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, October 12, 2019 - January 12, 2020, cat. no. 28 (illustrated in color, different copy).

LITERATURE: Ursel Berger, Günter Ladwig, Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Berlin 2013, catalogue raisonné no. 109 (illustrated, different copy).
Britta E. Buhlmann, Renée Sintenis. Werkmonographie der Skulpturen, Darmstadt 1987, catalogue raisonné no. (illustrated, different copy).
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Hanna Kiel (ed.), Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1935, illustrated on pp. 58/59 (different copy).
Rudolf Hagelstange, Carl Georg Heise and Paul Appel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1947, illustrated on p. 73 (different copy).