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Female torso

Lost Art-ID

599837

Artist / Creator

Hoetger, Bernhard

Birth

1874.05.04, Hörde (Dortmund)

Death

1949.07.18, Interlaken

Place of activity

Title

Female torso

Dating

1905

Object type

Sculpture

Group of reported objects

Sculpture

Material / Technique

Marble ; Granite

Measures

93 cm

Inventory number

P 0056-ex

Description

signed on the plinth: B. Hoetger

Sitting torso of a young girl with ringlets and neck knot, the head slightly tilted to the left. Upper arms and thighs cut off. The cut surfaces of the legs decorated with leaf tendrils, on the plinth a wreath of leaves. The cube-shaped base shows four fantastic birds surrounded by stylized foliage.

Provenance

Donation by August Freiherr von der Heydt, Elberfeld, 1911 | lost at the Ehrenbreitstein evacuation point, after/around 1945

[...]-1911: August Freiherr von der Heydt (1851-1929), Elberfeld | 1911-after/about 1945: Städtisches Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld | 1945: larceny, evacuation point Ehrenbreitstein | after/about 1945-present: whereabouts unknown

Storage site

Ehrenbreitstein

Published since

20.05.2022