Bronze with a golden-brown patina. With the name and the number "5/11" below the chin, with the foundry stamp "H. Noack Berlin" in the right. From an edition of 15 copies. 15.5 x 12 x 8 cm.
From a posthumous edition after 1947, based on the clay model from 1931. The differing number in the catalogue raisonné was an error on the part of the foundry. [EH].
• The year this work was made, Barlach also designed the large “Lehrender Christus” (Christ the Teacher), which would later adorn Christian Rohlfs' tomb.
• Expressionist formal language in archaic reduction.
• Ernst Barlach's artistic language is unique among German Expressionists and continues to fascinate viewers to this day with its haunting expressiveness.
LITERATURE: Elisabeth Laur, Ernst Barlach. Das plastische Werk, vol. 2, Güstrow 2006, no. 485. Schult 383.