225 - Edwin Scharff

Edwin Scharff Kardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bischof von Münster 1951 Bronze. Height 65 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed 'ES (ligiert) 1951 KARDINAL v Galen' on the rear pendilia bands of the mitra. - Fine, black-golden patina. – Some inconspicuous chips of the patina on the chin and the miter on the back. We would like to thank Elisabeth Heymer of the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm for confirmation of a total of four casts: in the Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, in the Museum Heimathaus Münsterland, Telgte, in the Paulus Cathedral, Münster, and one that was formerly on loan from the Kulturkreis to the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. Provenance Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, inv. no. 42/53 (since 1953, with two labels inside the bronze); loan to the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen Exhibitions Köln 1961 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Ars viva '61, cat. no. 65; Neu-Ulm/Marl/Heilbronn/Bremen/Schleswig 1987/1988 (Edwin Scharff Museum/Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten/Städtische Museen/Kunsthalle/Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum), Edwin Scharff. Retrospektive. Skulpturen, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Zum 100. Geburtstag des Künstlers, cat. no. 69, with ill. p. 146 Literature Cf. Gottfried Sello, Edwin Scharff, Hamburg 1956, p. 111 (with differing date), with ill. In 1950, Edwin Scharff was commissioned by the Diocese of Münster to create a posthumous bust of Cardinal von Galen. Following preparatory drawings, a plaster cast (Edwin Scharff Museum, Inv. No. 08330) and a working model (Edwin Scharff Museum), Scharff created the bronze sculptures in 1951. One is housed in the Heimathaus Museum in Telgte, one in the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm, and one formerly belonged to the collection of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. In 1976, a further cast was produced, intended for its original destination, St Paul’s Cathedral in Münster, where it remains to this day.