Kussgruppe I. 1921.
Bronze with yellow-brown patina.
Laur 322. Schult 251. With the name and the foundry mark "H. Noack Berlin" on the side. From an edition of 20 copies, partly posthumous. 17.3 x 17.1 x 9.5 cm (6.8 x 6.7 x 3.7 in).
Postumous cast after 1938. Cast by art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin. [AM].

• Wonderful example of Ernst Barlach's figure groups.
• The plaster model of "Kussgruppe I" is at the Ernst Barlach Foundation, Güstrow.
• Other copie sof this bronze are at, among others, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Israel Museum, Jersusalem, and the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Berlin.

EXHIBITION: Bronzen von Ernst Barlach, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin/Düsseldorf, Nov./Dec. 1930, cat. no. 11 (different copy).
Plastiken, Handzeichnungen und Autographen, Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, 1977, cat. no. 41 (different copy).