GAUL, AUGUST
1869 Großauheim - 1921 Berlin


Title: Young Swan Cleaning Itself.
Date: Design 1920. Later casting.
Single figure from the swan chick fountain that Gaul created in 1920 as the last fountain
project for Elsa Wolff-Eßberger's garden on Hamburg's Elbchaussee.
Technique: Bronze, dark-brown-patinated.
Measurement: 29.5 x 21 x 12cm.
Notation: Inscribed on the plinth: "A. Gaul (mit Ring)".
Foundry Mark: On the plinth's edge Foundry inscription: "W. Füssel Berlin".


Literature:
J. Gabler: August Gaul. Das Werkverzeichnis der Skulpturen, Berlin 2007, p. 150ff,
No. 286a.
Exhib. cat. "August Gaul. The Alfons and Marianne Kottmann Collection", Museen der Stadt Hanau 21.06 - 04.09.2011, p. 105.

Provenance:
Collection Kottmann, Hanau.