3700 - Bernhard Hoetger, Beggar/Le Mendiant

Bernhard Hoetger, Beggar/Le Mendiant Paris, c. 1902, early version, signed, foundry mark ‘Andro.Fondeur’.Paris, bronze with a brown patina, an expressionist depiction of a man begging for money in the harsh Parisian wind, with a long, flowing beard and cloak, his hat pressed against his leg, on an irregular, undulating plinth; partially very slightly rubbed, otherwise well preserved, H 26.5 cm. Artist’s details: German sculptor (1874 Hörde - 1949 Interlaken), painter and craftsman; completed a sculpting apprenticeship from 1888 to 1892, later studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Art; lived in Paris from 1900 to 1907, where he was influenced by the work of A. Rodin; appointed to the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony in 1911. Source: Thieme-Becker/Vollmer, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, published by Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG.