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Ludwig Thormaehlen

Hanau 1889 – 1956 Bad Ems

Bust of Stefan George (1868–1933). 1948/54 / 1960

Bronze, with grey-green patina; granite base – foundry of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. 39 cm / base: 13 cm (15 ⅜ in. / base: 5 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ludwig Thormaehlen. Bust of Stefan George (1868–1933). 1948/54 / 1960.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 10,000

USD 9,100

 

- 11,400

Sold for:

10,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 02.06.2016

Information

Bronze, with grey-green patina; granite base – foundry of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. 39 cm / base: 13 cm (15 ⅜ in. / base: 5 ⅛ in.). One of four casts.

Further casts: two examples of the Stefan George-Stiftung as deposit in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum Marbach a.N. and the Stefan George-Gedenkstätte, Bingen / Johannes Theodor Thormaehlen Stiftung.

Presumably Robert Boehringer (1884–1974), Geneva / Michael Stettler (1913–2003), Switzerland and Steffisburg / 2nd May 1980 as a gift from Settler to Hermann Josef Himstedt (1915–1995), Wiesbaden / family collection

Walther Greischel and Michael Stettler: Stefan Georgeim Bildnis, Düsseldorf and Munich 1976, ill. 7, p. 31 and 93 (with further literature)