Ernst Barlach
(German, 1870-1938)
Der Rächer (The Avenger), 1914
bronze with brown patina
inscribed by the artist E. Barlach and stamped with foundry mark H. Noack Berlin (rear edge of the base)
Height: 17 1/2 inches.
This lot is located in Chicago.

Literature:
Friedrich Schult, Ernst Barlach: Werkverzeichnis: Das plastische Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 167, p. 109 (another cast illustrated)
Peter Paret, An Artist Against the Third Reich, Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938, Cambridge, 2003, no. 11 (another cast illustrated)
Elisabeth Laur (ed.), Ernst Barlach, Das plastische Werk, vol. II, Güstrow, 2006, no. 229, pp. 141-142 (another cast illustrated)
Roman Zieglgänsberger (ed.), Zwischen Brücke und Blauem Reiter, Hanna Bekker vom Rath als Wegbereiterin der Moderne, exh. cat., Museum Wiesbaden, Cologne, 2014, p. 182 (another cast illustrated)