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Description
‘Adagio’
Displayed at the GDK 1944, room 7.
In creating this sculpture, Ernst Reiss Schmidt was probably inspired by Michelangelo’s ‘Pietà’. This Renaissance sculpture from 1499 is housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City.
Left: Ernst Reiss-Schmidt, ‘Adagio’, 1944. Original photo of ‘Adagio’ (model in clay) in the atelier of the artist in Düsseldorf. A stamp on the back of the photo reads: ‘ERNST REISS-SCHMIDT, Industrie-Architect, Düsseldorf-Obk, Quirinstr. 36, Telefon 51003’.
Right: The text under the foto: ‘ADAGIO, Lebensgross (life size), Untersberger Marmor, H=60 cm’.
| – condition | : II |
| – size | : height 60 cm |
| – signed | : unsigned |
| – type | : ‘Untersberger Marmor’ (Limestone from the Untersberg, near Berchtesgaden) |
| – msic. i | : created in 1944 |
| – misc. II | : sculpture is professional cleaned, a 5 page report is available |
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