Flora
Rudolf Alexander Agricola (Moskau 1912 - Königstein im Taunus 1990)
Lot-No. 606
Proceeds : 13.900 €
Designed 1943, made 1962. Bronze, brown patinated. Figure: H. 104 cm, marble base: H. 80,5 cm. Standing nude of a young woman of girlish loveliness. Agricola usually used his daughters or his wife as models for the female figures. The design for the Flora dates from 1943. The present casting is one of 5 copies (4 in bronze, 1 in zinc). (4 in bronze, 1 in zinc) and was created in 1962 as a commissioned work for the Hamburg Medical Association, mediated by the Hamburg architect Rudolf Lodders. - Literature: Cat. rais. Günther 50 - Provenance: Hamburg Medical Association - German sculptor, studied at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle under Gerhard Marcks, then at the Peußische Akademie in Berlin under Richard Scheibe, since 1946 freelancer in Kronberg. His oeuvre shows the stylistic influences from Maillol, Kolbe, Marcks and Scheibe. Mus.: i.a. Berlin, former Magistrat; Duisburg, Klöcknerhaus; Halle, Moritzburg-Mus.; Hamburg, Kunsthalle. Lit.: Saur, AKL vol1, 1992, p. 570. Günther, Knut. Rudolf Alexander Agricola. Darmstadt, 1971
Rudolf Alexander Agricola: Flora
Rudolf Alexander Agricola (Moskau 1912 - Königstein im Taunus 1990)
Flora
Lot-No. 606
Proceeds : 13.900 €
Designed 1943, made 1962. Bronze, brown patinated. Figure: H. 104 cm, marble base: H. 80,5 cm. Standing nude of a young woman of girlish loveliness. Agricola usually used his daughters or his wife as models for the female figures. The design for the Flora dates from 1943. The present casting is one of 5 copies (4 in bronze, 1 in zinc). (4 in bronze, 1 in zinc) and was created in 1962 as a commissioned work for the Hamburg Medical Association, mediated by the Hamburg architect Rudolf Lodders. - Literature: Cat. rais. Günther 50 - Provenance: Hamburg Medical Association - German sculptor, studied at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle under Gerhard Marcks, then at the Peußische Akademie in Berlin under Richard Scheibe, since 1946 freelancer in Kronberg. His oeuvre shows the stylistic influences from Maillol, Kolbe, Marcks and Scheibe. Mus.: i.a. Berlin, former Magistrat; Duisburg, Klöcknerhaus; Halle, Moritzburg-Mus.; Hamburg, Kunsthalle. Lit.: Saur, AKL vol1, 1992, p. 570. Günther, Knut. Rudolf Alexander Agricola. Darmstadt, 1971
