Bronze with black-brown patina. Mounted on a granite base. With the monogram "RS" in the bottom on the reverse. Height without base: 30 cm. Base: 6 x 5 x 5 cm. The statuette was also cast in silver; Knauf Collection (inv. no. 10362), ill. on p. 47. In 1930, Sintenis modeled a large version of this figure (no. 117). [KA].
• Sintenis is recognized as one of the most important modern German sculptors and was a formative figure in the Berlin art scene from the 1920s onwards. • “Daphne” is the best-known work in which the artist engages with the female body and expresses her aspirations for female emancipation. • Graceful interpretation of the traditional motif, characterized by Sintenis's typical light and playful lines. • Other copies “Kleine Daphne” are part of renowned public collections, including the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld. LITERATURE: Ursel Berger, Günter Ladwig, Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Berlin 2013, catalogue raisonné no. 030 (illustrated). Britta E. Buhlmann, Renée Sintenis. Werkmonographie der Skulpturen, Darmstadt 1987, catalogue raisonné no. 63 (illustrated). - - (in selection, each presumably a different copy) Gustav Eugen Diehl, R. Sintenis, Berlin no year (1927), no. 42. R. Crevel/G. Biermann, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1930, no. 42, p. 22 (illustrated) Wolfgang Stechow, Apollo und Daphne, Leipzig/Berlin 1932, fig. 63. Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1935, p. 18 (illustrated) Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1956, p. 16 (illustrated) C. L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art: The Harvard Collections, Cambridge 1957, p. 71 (illustration 116) H. Westhoff-Krummacher, Die Bildwerke seit 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und im öffentlichen Besitz der Stadt Köln, Cologne 1965, p. 243 (illustrated). Silke Kettelhake, Renée Sintenis. Berlin, Boheme und Ringelnatz, Berlin 2012, p. 66 (illustrated).
(in selection, each presumably a different copy) Renée Sintenis, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, May 22 - June 19, 1925, cat. no. 37. Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, March 19 - April 27, 1958, cat. no. 13 (illustrated). Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Zeichnungen und Graphik. Johann Michael Wilm. Ein Altmeister der deutschen Goldschmiedekunst, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, July - September 1961, cat. no. 3. Renée Sintenis, Graphisches Kabinett Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, May 16 - June 20, 1978, cat. no. 43. Renée Sintenis. Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin / Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück / Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg / Museen der Stadt Hanau / Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, 1983/84. Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, October 12, 2019 - January 12, 2020, cat. no. 19 (illustrated in color)
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Lot Details
Bronze with black-brown patina. Mounted on a granite base. With the monogram "RS" in the bottom on the reverse. Height without base: 30 cm. Base: 6 x 5 x 5 cm. The statuette was also cast in silver; Knauf Collection (inv. no. 10362), ill. on p. 47. In 1930, Sintenis modeled a large version of this figure (no. 117). [KA].
• Sintenis is recognized as one of the most important modern German sculptors and was a formative figure in the Berlin art scene from the 1920s onwards. • “Daphne” is the best-known work in which the artist engages with the female body and expresses her aspirations for female emancipation. • Graceful interpretation of the traditional motif, characterized by Sintenis's typical light and playful lines. • Other copies “Kleine Daphne” are part of renowned public collections, including the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld. LITERATURE: Ursel Berger, Günter Ladwig, Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Berlin 2013, catalogue raisonné no. 030 (illustrated). Britta E. Buhlmann, Renée Sintenis. Werkmonographie der Skulpturen, Darmstadt 1987, catalogue raisonné no. 63 (illustrated). - - (in selection, each presumably a different copy) Gustav Eugen Diehl, R. Sintenis, Berlin no year (1927), no. 42. R. Crevel/G. Biermann, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1930, no. 42, p. 22 (illustrated) Wolfgang Stechow, Apollo und Daphne, Leipzig/Berlin 1932, fig. 63. Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1935, p. 18 (illustrated) Hanna Kiel, Renée Sintenis, Berlin 1956, p. 16 (illustrated) C. L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art: The Harvard Collections, Cambridge 1957, p. 71 (illustration 116) H. Westhoff-Krummacher, Die Bildwerke seit 1800 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und im öffentlichen Besitz der Stadt Köln, Cologne 1965, p. 243 (illustrated). Silke Kettelhake, Renée Sintenis. Berlin, Boheme und Ringelnatz, Berlin 2012, p. 66 (illustrated).
(in selection, each presumably a different copy) Renée Sintenis, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, May 22 - June 19, 1925, cat. no. 37. Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, March 19 - April 27, 1958, cat. no. 13 (illustrated). Renée Sintenis. Das plastische Werk, Zeichnungen und Graphik. Johann Michael Wilm. Ein Altmeister der deutschen Goldschmiedekunst, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, July - September 1961, cat. no. 3. Renée Sintenis, Graphisches Kabinett Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, May 16 - June 20, 1978, cat. no. 43. Renée Sintenis. Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin / Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück / Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg / Museen der Stadt Hanau / Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, 1983/84. Zwischen Freiheit und Moderne. Die Bildhauerin Renée Sintenis, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, October 12, 2019 - January 12, 2020, cat. no. 19 (illustrated in color)
Renée Sintenis 
