Barwig Reiher

 

EGRET

designed by: Franz Barwig, 1911

signed on the side of the base: F. BARWIG

bronze, patinated

very good original condition

H 33 cm

The egret was made for the 1911 spring exhibition of the Vienna Hagenbund. In the following years, the figure was shown in numerous exhibitions: in the winter of 1911/12 at the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, in 1912 at the Great Art Exhibition in Dresden, in 1913 at the Munich ‘Crystal Palace’, in 1931 at the memorial exhibition at the Vienna Secession, and in 1937 at the Exposition d´Art Autrichien.

ref. Egret: M. Eisler, Österreichische Werkkultur, 1916, ill. p. 140; Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere, 1969, Franz Barwig, p. 32; Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, XV, 1912, p. 350