Bronze relief on an uneven squared plate. Bottom center monogrammed. From an edition of 8 copies. 30.3 x 32.5 cm.
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- One of only eight known copies. - The motif is taken from Ewald Mataré's relief panel “Dankspende des Deutschen Volkes für Schweden”, which is housed in a government building in Stockholm. - In 1953, the artist was awarded the Grand Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and had a solo exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.
LITERATURE: Sabine M. Schilling, Ewald Mataré. Das plastische Werk, Cologne 1987, cat. rais. no. 388 (with b/w ill. p. 236, different copy). - - Hans T. Flemming, Ewald Mataré, Munich 1955 (with ill. no. 35, different copy). Toni Feldenkirchen, Zeichen von der Erde und den Himmeln, in: Weltkunst, 1977, issue 5, p. 404 (with ill., different copy).