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Bernhard Heiliger
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- Bernhard Heiliger
- Head of Kurt Martin: Two Works
- The first: Bronze, second of three casts
The second: Plaster, one of three casts (possibly) - Height (both): 12 1/4 in.
- 31 cm
- The first: Executed in 1959, cast in 1962. The second: Executed in 1959.
Provenance
The first: Acquired directly from the artist in 1963 (bronze)
The second: Gift of the Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1962
The second: Gift of the Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1962
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Works from the Permanent Collection, 1963, no. 151 (the bronze cast exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Works from the Permanent Collection, 1966. no. 186
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Documentation of Art, 1968, n.n.
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Art in Berlin 1810 - 1985, November 1989 - January 1990 (the plaster cast exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Works from the Permanent Collection, 1966. no. 186
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Documentation of Art, 1968, n.n.
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Art in Berlin 1810 - 1985, November 1989 - January 1990 (the plaster cast exhibited)
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Heiliger's design for the Memorial to Unknown Political Prisoners (1953) brought him his first international recognition, earning him the Prize of the National Government and a prize from the Institute of Contemporary Arts. This was followed by his participation in several prominent international exhibits, such as the documenta I, II and III in Kassel (1955, 1959, 1964), the Venice Biennale (1956), and by commissions such as sculptures for the German pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
After the plaster of this sculpture was donated in 1962, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum asked Heiliger to cast the sculpture in bronze. The bronze cast entered the collection as a purchase from the artist in 1963. Dr. Kurt Martin was a prominent art historian and Director of the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in Germany.