MOLL, MARGARETE (MARG)
1884 Mulhouse - 1977 Munich

Title: Akt.
Date: 1956 (draft).
Technique: Bronze, brown patinated.
Measurement: 69 x 25,5 x 9cm.
Notation: Signed verso: MARG MOLL.
Foundry Mark: Here additionally the foundry mark: GUSS BARTH RINTELN. Frame/Pedestal: Plinth: 5 x 33 x 20cm (total dimensions: 74 x 33 x 20cm).


This bronze is presumably one of only two casts.

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Cf. Filmer, Werner: Marg Moll - Eine deutsche Bildhauerin (1884-1977), Bergisch-Gladbach 2013, p. 158 (pictured here: the wooden model)


- One of the great German sculptors of modernism, whose work is rightly being brought back into the focus of museums and collectors
- One of the first students at the Städel Art Institute and a student of Henri Matisse in Paris from 1908 to 1911
- Influences of Archipenko and Brancusi, whom she met personally, can be found in her formal language.