Poseidon. 1963/64.
Bronze with gray - green patina.
One of 3 executed lifetime casts from a planned edition of 5. 110 cm (43.3 in).

• One of 3 lifetime casts.
• Another copy is in the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
• This is the first time that a copy of this powerful bronze is offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Fritz Koenig literally merges the symbiosis of man and animal into a dynamic unity.
• In the year of its creation, Fritz Koenig took part in documenta III in Kassel and was appointed to the chair of sculptural design in the architecture department of the Technical University of Munich.

PROVENANCE: Fritz-und-Maria-Koenig-Foundation, Landshut.

LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, no. 318, p. 290 (fig. pp. 100f.)
Peter-Klaus Schuster, Fritz Koenig. Skulptur und Zeichnung, ex. cat. Munich/Berlin 1988/89, p. 16 (fig.).

"These hybrids of human and animal are to be understood not simply as evidence of an effort to fuse sculptural values, but also - and perhaps above all - as an expression of an idea of harmony of creatures, as it determines the artist's activity as a horse breeder on another level."
D. Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig, Munich 2003, p. 13.