Gerhard Marcks
Albertus Magnus (Modell I)
1955
Bronze. Height 24 cm. Artist's signum on the plinth, numbered on the verso of the plinth edge and with the foundry mark "GUSS BARTH RINTELN". Cast VI/VI. One of a total of 21 casts. - Golden-brown patina.
Cast of one of the two smaller models (Model I: height 24 cm, Model II: height 87 cm) for the "Albertus Magnus" monument, which was created in 1955 as a commissioned work for the University of Cologne, organised by Josef Haubrich (Rudloff 629, height 270 cm).
Catalogue Raisonné
Rudloff 628 a; Gerhard Marcks works diary plaster/bronze 421
Provenance
Private ownership, Berlin
Literature
I.a. Adolf Rieth, Gerhard Marcks, Recklinghausen 1969, p. 20; Heinz Ladendorf, Gerhard Marcks, Albertus Magnus, Stuttgart 1962
Exhibitions
Cf. i.a. Cologne 1955 (Kunstverein), annual exhibition Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kölner Künstler, cat. no. 78; Cologne 1957 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 35 with ill.; New York 1958 (Gerson Gallery), cat.no. 18 with ill.; Cologne 1964 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 39; Bremen 1964 (Kunsthalle), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 55; New York 1967 (Leonard Hutton Galleries), A Comprehensive Exhibition of Bronze Sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 15 with ill.; Düsseldorf 1974 (Galerie Vömel), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 17 with ill.