Ernst Barlach:
Sculpture "The Thinker II" (1934), reduction in bronze
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Ars Mundi exclusive edition | Limited, 980 exemplars | Serially numbered | Signature | Casting punch | Certificate | Bronze | Patinated | Reduction | Format: 8 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm (W/H/D) | Weight 2.5 kg
Ernst Barlach and the work of mind
Barlach´s "Thinker" was created in 1934. That was a year of great upheavals and important decisions for him. Indeed, at that time, Barlach testified with his signature of the "Appeal of Culture Creators" his availability to subordinate himself to the NS art system; however, his clearly formulated criticism reached so far that his works were removed from the public sphere. His "Wanderer in Wind" – also dated 1934 – is deemed today as the work with which he positioned himself against the Regime. His "Thinker" represents also an agonizing process: a young man, under the visible stress of thinking, as he has to make a momentous decision.
The sculpture "The Thinker II":
With his fingertips on the cheek and deeply immersed in thoughts: Barlach´s "Thinker" presents thinking as a highly focused work. Hand-cast using the lost wax technique and patinated. The shape was taken directly from the original and reduced (reduction). Limited series of 980 exemplars, individually serially numbered and with signature taken from the original "E. Barlach" and casting punch. ars mundi exclusive edition, issued in cooperation with Ernst Barlach Company. With serially numbered authenticity and limiting certificate. Format: 8 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm (W/H/D). Weight 2.5 kg.
""For me, 'The Thinker' with its attitude, embodies the tranquility of great wisdom. The exhausted body shape is marked just by four long folds. The left hand, placed on the chin, seems as an active gesture of contemplation and introspection, while the right one is inactive, in the cloak folds. Frail and sensitive 'the Thinker' appears as the absolute contemplative existence. He seems to be a man reliant on outer, maybe higher help. He does not judge, does not evaluate, he is just testifying his existence. Spirituality and religious aura penetrate the overall apparition." (Dr. Jürgen Doppelstein, Ernst Barlach Company)
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Ernst Barlach: Sculpture "The Thinker II" (1934), reduction in bronze
Ernst Barlach and the work of mind
Barlach´s "Thinker" was created in 1934. That was a year of great upheavals and important decisions for him. Indeed, at that time, Barlach testified with his signature of the "Appeal of Culture Creators" his availability to subordinate himself to the NS art system; however, his clearly formulated criticism reached so far that his works were removed from the public sphere. His "Wanderer in Wind" – also dated 1934 – is deemed today as the work with which he positioned himself against the Regime. His "Thinker" represents also an agonizing process: a young man, under the visible stress of thinking, as he has to make a momentous decision.
The sculpture "The Thinker II":
With his fingertips on the cheek and deeply immersed in thoughts: Barlach´s "Thinker" presents thinking as a highly focused work. Hand-cast using the lost wax technique and patinated. The shape was taken directly from the original and reduced (reduction). Limited series of 980 exemplars, individually serially numbered and with signature taken from the original "E. Barlach" and casting punch. ars mundi exclusive edition, issued in cooperation with Ernst Barlach Company. With serially numbered authenticity and limiting certificate. Format: 8 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm (W/H/D). Weight 2.5 kg.
""For me, 'The Thinker' with its attitude, embodies the tranquility of great wisdom. The exhausted body shape is marked just by four long folds. The left hand, placed on the chin, seems as an active gesture of contemplation and introspection, while the right one is inactive, in the cloak folds. Frail and sensitive 'the Thinker' appears as the absolute contemplative existence. He seems to be a man reliant on outer, maybe higher help. He does not judge, does not evaluate, he is just testifying his existence. Spirituality and religious aura penetrate the overall apparition." (Dr. Jürgen Doppelstein, Ernst Barlach Company)
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Ernst Barlach
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