Heinrich Faltermeier, Mädchen im Wind

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‘Mädchen im Wind’ (‘Girl in the Wind’)
Biography: Heinrich Faltermeier

Bronze, model from 1937, cast in 1939.
Height 178 cm. 

‘Mädchen im Wind’ by Faltermeier, displayed at the exhibition ‘Art in the Third Reich, Seduction and Distraction’, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 2023 – March 2024. Photo’s Eva Broekema. 

Heinrich Faltermeier, ‘Mädchen im Wind‘. Executed in plaster. GDK 1942 room 21.

Heinrich Faltermeier, ‘Mädchen im Wind‘. Executed in marble. GDK 1943 room 24. This statue was sold for 17,000 Reichsmark to the city of Eberswalde. It was placed in 1943 a public park, but disappeared at the end of the war.

‘Muchacha al Viento’
The 1943-GDK sculpture ‘Mädchen im Wind’, standing in a public park in Eberswalde (‘Parque Municipal de Eberswalde’) was depicted in the Spanish exhibition catalog ‘Exposicion de Esculpturas Heinrich Faltermeier’, Grifé & Escoda S.L., d.d. 1948, Barcelona. The exhibition catalog mentions 39 works by Faltermeier, including a second marble cast of ‘Mädchen im Wind’, listed as ‘Muchacha al Viento’. 

‘Mädchen in Wind’, the marble GDK-1943 cast, depicted on a postcard issued by Heinrich Hoffmann.  
   

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