Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold:
Sculpture "Monkey with Skull" (1892-93), version in bronze
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Limited, 980 exemplars | Serially numbered | Bronze + Diabase | Hand-made | Patinated | Partly polished and gold-plated | Format: 17 x 26 x 17 cm (W/H/D) | Weight ca. 5 kg | Certificate
With the sculpture “Monkey with Skull" the philosopher and sculptor Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold (1853-1900) rendered the debate on Charles Darwin´s work into a straight iconographic form. According to his contemporaries, with his diverse allusions, he delivered a "masterpiece of superior humor" – not only Shakespeare´s "To be, or not to be", but also Rodin´s "Thinker" and circulating Darwin cartoons are shimmering through.
However, Rheinhold´s monkey is much more than bronze cast humor from ancestors’ times. The monkey playing with a skull measuring tool is sitting not only on Darwin´s groundbreaking work, but also on the Bible. And, at a closer look, the "Inscriptio", the inscription appears, quite classical, as the key for the allegory: "Eritis sicut deus" that is, "You will be like God". With just these words the devil lured Adam and Eve to the Tree of Knowledge, and this, as we know, resulted in their expulsion from Paradise. Thus, the sculptor Rheinhold appears in the end again as philosopher: The "Monkey with Skull" tells us that he who is looking for knowledge has to expect consequences, even if not one of the fundamental experiences of the 20th century - from the atomic bomb to genetic technology.
Sculpture of fine bronze, cast using the lost wax technique, partly hand-patinated, polished and gold-plated. On black diabase base. Format: 17 x 26 x 17 cm (W/H/D), Weight ca. 5 kg. Limited to 980 exemplars, serially numbered. With certificate.
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Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold: Sculpture "Monkey with Skull" (1892-93), version in bronze
With the sculpture “Monkey with Skull" the philosopher and sculptor Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold (1853-1900) rendered the debate on Charles Darwin´s work into a straight iconographic form. According to his contemporaries, with his diverse allusions, he delivered a "masterpiece of superior humor" – not only Shakespeare´s "To be, or not to be", but also Rodin´s "Thinker" and circulating Darwin cartoons are shimmering through.
However, Rheinhold´s monkey is much more than bronze cast humor from ancestors’ times. The monkey playing with a skull measuring tool is sitting not only on Darwin´s groundbreaking work, but also on the Bible. And, at a closer look, the "Inscriptio", the inscription appears, quite classical, as the key for the allegory: "Eritis sicut deus" that is, "You will be like God". With just these words the devil lured Adam and Eve to the Tree of Knowledge, and this, as we know, resulted in their expulsion from Paradise. Thus, the sculptor Rheinhold appears in the end again as philosopher: The "Monkey with Skull" tells us that he who is looking for knowledge has to expect consequences, even if not one of the fundamental experiences of the 20th century - from the atomic bomb to genetic technology.
Sculpture of fine bronze, cast using the lost wax technique, partly hand-patinated, polished and gold-plated. On black diabase base. Format: 17 x 26 x 17 cm (W/H/D), Weight ca. 5 kg. Limited to 980 exemplars, serially numbered. With certificate.
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