August Gaul Seelöwe. August Gaul für Meissen. 1934 bis 2. H. 20. Jh.
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August Gaul

Seelöwe. August Gaul für Meissen. 1934 bis 2. H. 20. Jh. August Gaul1869 Großauheim - 1921 Berlin Porzellan, glazed. On the back side of the sock with the Schwertermarke in Unterglasurblau and the geritzten Schwertermarke mit Weißkennzeichnung, vierfach geschliffen. Unterseits eine weitere geritzte Schwertermarke mit Weißkennzeichnung, der geritzten Formnummer "G. 287" sowie der Bossierernummer "136". Auf dem Sockel im Model geritzt signiert "A. Gaul". Entwurfsjahr: 1903WVZ Gabler 105-1. Vgl. Bergmann, Sabine / Bergmann, Thomas: Meissener Künstler-Figuren, Erlangen 2010, Nr. 988 und Nr. 990, dort in leicht abweichender Form sowie in Böttger-Steinzeug ausgeführt. Die hintere Körperhälfte des Seelöwen mit durchgehendem Haarriss (ca. 20 cm). Eine Flosse mit Ausschliff. Chip am Sockel. Vereinzelte, winzige Glasurunregelmäßigkeiten, im Gesamtbild jedoch unauffällig. Maße: H. 33 cm. August Gaul 1869 Großauheim - 1921 Berlin Beginnt als Zwölfjähriger seine künstlerische Ausbildung, ab 1882 Besuch der Königlichen Zeichenschule Hanau. 1888 Beginn des Studiums an der Unterrichtsanstalt des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums. 1892 Studium an der Akademischen Hochschule der bildenden Künste Berlin, bei Paul Meyerheim und Ernst Herter. 1894 Gehilfe bei Reinhold Begas, 1895-97 Meisterschüler in dessen Atelier. 1904 Mitglied der Preußischen Akademie der Künste, 1908 Ernennung zum Professor.

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Meissen ‘Bear’, Böttger stoneware, 2nd half of the 20th century After a design by August Gaul 1922, signed, embossed sword mark, cancelled twice. Inscription ‘Böttger Steinzeug’, incised model number A.1059. Bear sitting on an oval base eating, good condition, slight signs of use. Height approx. 9 cm.

Sitting bear, feeding, Meissen, mark after 1934, 1st choice, Böttger stoneware, design A. Gaul, and marked, design 1895, model no. A 1059, natiralistically designed fur, on an oval base, h. 10 cm

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AUGUST GAUL (Hanau, 1869- Berlin, 1921). "Don penguins", c. 1911. Patinated and gilded bronze. Signed A. Gaul. Measurements: 16 x 17, 5 x 8,5 cm; 4,5 x 21,5 x 10,5 cm (base). During the nineteenth and twentieth century the animal-themed sculpture will finally reach a status of its own, within the context of romantic sculpture. Seeking to break away from the classical sculptural ideal, many artists saw in the animal theme a new way of expression, linked to the emotional and irrational nature, in a purely romantic sense. August Gaul was a German sculptor and medalist active during the transition from historicism to modernism. The son of the stonemason Philipp Gaul (1840-1910), he received his first inspiration for his later profession in his father's workshop. He served an apprenticeship as a model maker in a silversmith's factory, and from 1884 he was a student at the Royal Prussian Academy of Drawing in Hanau. With the support of his teacher, the sculptor Max Wiese, he moved to Berlin in 1888. There he initially worked in the sculpture workshop of Alexander Calandrelli and attended courses at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. After obtaining a permanent free pass to the Berlin Zoological Garden in 1890, he studied drawing there intensively. In 1894 he began studying at the Berlin Academy of Art, in the class of the painter Paul Meyerheim, whose strong point was the depiction of animals. In 1895, Gaul began working as an advanced student in the studio of Reinhold Begas, the leading exponent of neo-baroque at the Berlin sculpture school. Begas commissioned from him and August Kraus two of the four lions for the National Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm, located in front of the Berlin City Hall. A prize awarded by the Academy for a relief allowed Gaul to study in Italy between 1897- 1898. Upon his return, he became best known for his sculpture of the two Roman goats, which he was also able to exhibit at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition. In 1898, he was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession, an association of artists such as Max Liebermann, Louis Tuaillon and Walter Leistikow, who opposed the prevailing academic art scene; he was a member of the board of the Secession from 1902. August Gaul was appointed professor at the Academy of Art in 1908 and in 1919 he was appointed member of the acquisitions commission of the National Gallery in Berlin.

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