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Boy playing with a ball
Lost Art-ID
529375
Artist / Creator
Epler, Carl Heinrich
Birth
1846.08.05, Königsberg (Franken)
Death
1905.04.30, Dresden
Place of activity
Dresden; Koblenz; Kötzschenbroda
Title
Boy playing with a ball
Dating
1905 (vor)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Bronze) / cast
Measures
Länge: 107 cm
Height
68.00 cm
Width
38.50 cm
Inventory number
ZV 2235
Description
The naked boy is bent foreward and measures with the right hand the distance of the balls lying on the ground. The smooth movement of the slender boy's body is rendered convincingly.
Literature: Stephan, Bärbel: Sächsische Bildhauerkunst, Johannes Schilling 1828-1940, Berlin 1996, 64, 72, 96, 97, 104, 107.
Berichte aus den Königlichen Sammlungen 1905, 3.
Provenance
1905 State grant for small-scale sculpture.
Inventory ZV 458-2814 (1886-1919 / 20). Not listed in the inventory in 1950.
On 11.02.1925 for loan to the Ministry of Justice Dresden.
War loss.
Literature / Source
Stephan, Bärbel: Sächsische Bildhauerkunst, Johannes Schilling 1828-1940, Berlin 1996, 64, 72, 96, 97, 104, 107.
Berichte aus den Königlichen Sammlungen 1905, 3.
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