Bernhard Hoetger created the models for the Majolica cycle during his stay in Florence in 1911–1912. The cycle consists of 15 figures, the seven figures of light (light, love, truth, gentleness, kindness, faith and hope) and the seven figures of darkness (greed, anger, hatred, shadow, avarice, vengeance and deceit). The complete series was exhibited for the first time in 1912 in Cologne at the Sonderbund exhibition.
Majolica shards, glazed white and black-brown. 23 × 42 × 28 cm
(9 × 16 ½ × 11 in.). Catalogue raisonné: Drost 272. From the fifteen-figure majolica cycle ‘Light and Shadow Sides’, created in 1912 by Tonwerke Kandern under the direction of Max Laeuger and originally distributed by the Ernst Arnold Gallery in Dresden.. [3192]
Bernhard Hoetger created the models for the Majolica cycle during his stay in Florence in 1911–1912. The cycle consists of 15 figures, the seven figures of light (light, love, truth, gentleness, kindness, faith and hope) and the seven figures of darkness (greed, anger, hatred, shadow, avarice, vengeance and deceit). The complete series was exhibited for the first time in 1912 in Cologne at the Sonderbund exhibition.
