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Otto Gutfreund (1889-1927)

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Description

  • Otto Gutfreund
  • cello player
  • bronze
  • Height: 47 cm.
  • Conceived 1912-13. Cast at a later date

Provenance

Milan Heidenreich  (acquired by the present owner)

Exhibited

Passau, Museum Moderner Kunst (travelling exhibition), Tschechischer Kubismus, Emil Filla und Zeitgenossen, 1991, illustrated in colour

Literature

Prague, exhibition-catalogue of the National Gallery, Otto Gudfreund, 14.12.1995-14.4.1996 (catalogue raisonne being prepared by G. Setlík), p. 202-203, no. 78, illustrated

Catalogue Note

In 1910 Gutfreund studied in Paris with Bourdelle at the Académie Grande Chaumière. On his return to Prague in 1911 he joined the Group of Plastic Artists. In 1912-13 he created sculptures which are amongst the earliest three-dimensional cubist works. Interned during World War I, he moved on his release to Paris where he lived from 1918-1920 experimenting with synthetic cubism.