Bronze with black-brown patina. Monogram engraved on the left heel. One of two bronze copies. Height: 47 cm. Base: 1,5 x 23 x 8 cm.
Three other copies were executed in iron. [EH].

• Fritz Koenig reduces the riding couple to an abstract, existential symbolic form.
• Horseback riding: a very personal motif for Fritz Koenig, who ran his own stud farm on near Landshut.
• In the 1980s, he constructed figures from reduced, sometimes split cylindrical forms.
• Bronzes by the artist from this period are in important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, CR no. 892 (illustrated on p. 892 (different copy).

Private collection, Southern Germany

In good condition. With a few scuffs and very small scratches. There is an irregularity in the patina on the front of the right foot.