235 - Karl Hartung

Karl Hartung Porträt Hans Purrmann 1957 Terracotta. Mounted on original artist's wooden base (4.2 x 19 x 19.3 cm). Height 26 cm. Artist's mark 'HARTUNG' scratched on lower left side. One of only three terracotta copies created during the artist’s lifetime. One copy is in the collection of the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Another terracotta copy and a cement cast are in the possession of the Karl Hartung Estate. - In excellent condition. Krause 589 We would like to thank Anna Hartung, the Karl Hartung Estate, for the additional information. Provenance Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft (acquired directly from the artist); loan to the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt Exhibitions Cf. Essen 1958 (Gruga-Hallen), Deutscher Künstlerbund. 8. Ausstellung, cat. no. 423; Trier 1958, Ars viva, cat. no. 11; Berlin 1962 (Akademie der Künste), cat. no. 5 with ill.; Rotterdam 1964 (Museum Boymans-van Beuningen), Duitse Kunst van heden, cat. no. 78; Wolfsburg 1966 (Kunstverein), Deutsche Maler und Bildhauer seit 1945. Ausgewählte Werke aus der Museumsspende des Kulturkreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V., cat. no. 77 with ill. Literature Cf. Barbara und Erhard Göpel, Leben und Meinungen des Malers Hans Purrmann anhand seiner Erzählungen, Schriften und Briefe, Wiesbaden 1961, p. 273 with ill. "Hans Purrmann and Karl Hartung shared a long-standing friendship as artists, which in the 1950s even led them to travel together to places such as the picturesque island of Ischia, where they also met Eduard Bargheer, amongst others. It was out of this bond that one of the few portrait busts of outstanding figures of that era was created. A typical character study, with which Hartung has created a monument to his painter friend as a symbol of this friendship, one that will forever commemorate this bond.” Anna Hartung