Hen with Chicks
August Gaul (Groß-Auheim bei Hanau 1869 - Berlin 1921)
Lot-No. 476
Proceeds : 2.100 €
Around 1898. Bronze, darkbrown patinated. H. 5,5 x w. 6,5 x d. 5 cm, marble base: H. 2 cm. Sign. Gaul, foundry mark HNOACK BERLIN. - Animal sculptor and graphic artist, studied first at the drawing academy in Hanau and later at the academy in Berlin, was a master pupil of Reinhold Begas and one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession, member of the Deutscher Werkbund, professor in 1908, most important German animal sculptor of his time. Lit.: Josephine Gabler Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, 2007;
August Gaul: Hen with Chicks
August Gaul (Groß-Auheim bei Hanau 1869 - Berlin 1921)
Hen with Chicks
Lot-No. 476
Proceeds : 2.100 €
Around 1898. Bronze, darkbrown patinated. H. 5,5 x w. 6,5 x d. 5 cm, marble base: H. 2 cm. Sign. Gaul, foundry mark HNOACK BERLIN. - Animal sculptor and graphic artist, studied first at the drawing academy in Hanau and later at the academy in Berlin, was a master pupil of Reinhold Begas and one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession, member of the Deutscher Werkbund, professor in 1908, most important German animal sculptor of his time. Lit.: Josephine Gabler Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, 2007;
