Arno Breker, Du und Ich (original marble)

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				Price: USD 110,000

Description

‘Du und Ich’
Biography: Arno Breker

Single unique marble relief.
Size 75,5 x 41,5 cm.
Signed. 

— displayed at the exhibition ‘Art in the Third Reich, Seduction and Distraction’, November 2023 – March 2024, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands —

This original marble relief assumably served as the model for the 100 identical post war casts of ‘ARA-marble’ (casts of syntectic marble, 50 executed in white ARA-marble, and 50 excuted om ARA-terracotta; two series of 50). The relief bears no number. During the professional cleaning proces (which took two weeks), rests of the molding material were found.
Arno Breker’s large plaster model of ‘Du und Ich’, measuring 2.32 by 1.28 meters, was displayed in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1944, Room 2.

This marble relief was displayed at the exhibition ‘Nazi Design’, Design Museum Den Bosch, The Netherlands, 8 September 2019 – 1 March 2020. This world-wide highly publicized exhibition attracted over 130.000 visitors in six months. The exhibition was covered on the front page of the New York Times and Bild, and i.a. in the Guardian, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Paris Match, Spiegel, Welt, Tagesspiegel, El Pais and all Dutch newspapers. On television the exposition was covered i.a. by the ARD, ZDF, DW News, Aljazeera, AFP News Agency, SBS World News, and all mayor television chanels in The Netherlands. Because of the enormous popularity of the exhibition, the museum extended opening hours, opened its doors also on Mondays, and finally it extended the exhibition by 6 weeks.

The relief was shown on German television during prime time: Tagesschau, 9 September 2019 (Daily News, main edition; the television news service produced by the German public-service television network ARD).

The marble ‘Du und Ich’ by Breker, displayed at the 2019/20 exhibition ‘Nazi Design’ in The Netherlands. Depicted in the Kuwait Times of 19 September 2019.

Left an impressive bronze sculpture by Arno Breker. At the right ‘Du und Ich’ executed in original marble.

The marble ‘Du und Ich’ by Breker, displayed at the exhibition ‘Art in the Third Reich, Seduction and Distraction’, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 2023 – March 2024. Photo’s Eva Broekema.
Below, right: the marble ‘Du und Ich’ by Breker, depicted in the exhibition catalog ‘Art in the Third Reich’ by Jelle Bouwhuis and Almar Seinen, 2023.

 

Left: Arno Breker, ‘Du und Ich‘, depicted in ‘Zucht und Sitte‘, Folge V, 1944. Depicted is assumably the GDK-plaster model.
Right: ‘Du und Ich’, executed in bronze. Size 230 x 127 cm. Created in the late 1960s as one of a series of 12 by foundry Herbert Schmäke, Düsseldorf. Other smaller casts in bronze (75,5 x 41 cm) were created as part of a series of 15. Sold by a German auction house in 2019.
  

‘Du und Ich’ printed on a postcard. Before 1945.
   

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