Ernst Barlach

 

Wedel 1870 - 1938 Rostock

 
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The Wastrel, c. 1921

Charcoal on packing paper

48 x 36.6 cm

Signed lower right. „E. Barlach“

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, South Germany

Verbally confirmed by Dr. Magdalena Schulz-Ohm, Ernst Barlach Stiftung Güstrow and dated c. 1921.

Between 1912-1922, Barlach executed 5 charcoal drawings of this theme. See Anette Wittboldt and Elisabeth Laur, Ernst Barlach, Die Zeichnungen I, Güstrow 2013, cat. no. 1140, 1375, 1773, 1954, 1955; these served as preparatory studies for two sculpted figures from 1921 (Schult 327 - 330) and two reliefs of 1923 (Schult 355 - 357). Our drawing is related to “Verschwender II” (Schult 329). It was intended to be executed in wood for decorating the vestibule of the collector and textile magnate Leo Lewin (1881-1965) in Breslau, planned but not executed in 1920. Further intended ensemble figures for this plan were the Flutist, Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Monks Reading. Paper slightly yellowed by fixative, small holes in the corners.

 
 
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