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Resting with turban, 1955
Bronze
30,5 × 23 × 25,6 cm
Eines von ca. 20 Exemplaren
Monogrammed
Gießerstempel: H. Noack, Berlin, Guss nach 1960
Provenance:
Fritz Klimsch estate
Private collection, Cologne
Private collection, Cologne
Literature:
Hermann, Braun, Fritz Klimsch. Eine Dokumentation, Köln 1991, S. 29, S. 183 (Abb. Am Strand), S. 363f., Nr. 131.
The bronze "Resting with Turban", created in 1955, goes back to Fritz Klimsch's 1926 sculpture "On the Beach" (cast stone), which is now considered lost.
Fritz Klimsch, who had lived in Berlin since 1886 and taught there as a professor at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst since 1921, lost his Berlin flat in 1943 due to bombing raids and moved to Austria with his family. After the Second World War, Klimsch did not return to Berlin, but moved to Saig in the Black Forest, where he continued his sculptural work. The sculptor began to take up forms from earlier works. With "Resting with Turban", Klimsch creates a smaller version of "On the Beach", whereby he slightly varies the figure's head, face and turban. In addition to the seated posture, Klimsch adopts the lowered head position and the introverted expression of the young woman.
Klimsch's female nudes, who rarely works directly in front of the model, are characterised by a lifelike and lively, but primarily idealised form. In his works, Klimsch sought to combine Adolf von Hildebrand's "feeling for the architectural and static", Auguste Rodin's "liveliness of form and expression" and the ideal of classical antiquity (Fritz Klimsch, 1937).
Fritz Klimsch, who had lived in Berlin since 1886 and taught there as a professor at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst since 1921, lost his Berlin flat in 1943 due to bombing raids and moved to Austria with his family. After the Second World War, Klimsch did not return to Berlin, but moved to Saig in the Black Forest, where he continued his sculptural work. The sculptor began to take up forms from earlier works. With "Resting with Turban", Klimsch creates a smaller version of "On the Beach", whereby he slightly varies the figure's head, face and turban. In addition to the seated posture, Klimsch adopts the lowered head position and the introverted expression of the young woman.
Klimsch's female nudes, who rarely works directly in front of the model, are characterised by a lifelike and lively, but primarily idealised form. In his works, Klimsch sought to combine Adolf von Hildebrand's "feeling for the architectural and static", Auguste Rodin's "liveliness of form and expression" and the ideal of classical antiquity (Fritz Klimsch, 1937).