Diana with Greyhounds - Setting off on a Hunt
Arthur Bock (Leipzig 1875 - Ettlingen 1957)
Lot-No. 652
Proceeds : 1.500 €
Around 1911. Bronze with dark-brown patina. 47 x 61 x 11 cm. Sign. A. BOCK fec., foundry stamp DÜSSELDF. BRONCEGIESSEREI G.M.B.H. n 1911, Bock created the motif as a large sculpture for the Hamburg City Park. It shows Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, with a hunting horn in her right hand hand, striding purposefully forward, accompanied by two greyhounds - German sculptor, trained in Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin, worked as an art professor in Hamburg from 1903 and taught at the private Gerda Koppel painting school. In Hamburg, he created highly acclaimed works in public spaces, producing over 50 works for the Ohlsdorf cemetery alone. His home and studio were in Hamburg-St. Georg and were destroyed in 1943
Arthur Bock: Diana with Greyhounds - Setting off on a Hunt
Arthur Bock (Leipzig 1875 - Ettlingen 1957)
Diana with Greyhounds - Setting off on a Hunt
Lot-No. 652
Proceeds : 1.500 €
Around 1911. Bronze with dark-brown patina. 47 x 61 x 11 cm. Sign. A. BOCK fec., foundry stamp DÜSSELDF. BRONCEGIESSEREI G.M.B.H. n 1911, Bock created the motif as a large sculpture for the Hamburg City Park. It shows Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, with a hunting horn in her right hand hand, striding purposefully forward, accompanied by two greyhounds - German sculptor, trained in Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin, worked as an art professor in Hamburg from 1903 and taught at the private Gerda Koppel painting school. In Hamburg, he created highly acclaimed works in public spaces, producing over 50 works for the Ohlsdorf cemetery alone. His home and studio were in Hamburg-St. Georg and were destroyed in 1943
