Franz Klein (AFTER)
Franz Klein (AFTER), Ludwig van Beethoven, H. 31 cm (with base). Marble, bronze laurel wreath. Mounted on a gray stone base. Marked: 515 4 (embossed)., After the life mask by Franz Klein, 1812, which is now in the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn. Franz von Stuck used the same model for several portraits of Beethoven. The Kunstanstalt Schumacher & Co., Osterode comes into question as the caster (execution: prior to 1929).
