HOETGER, BERNHARD1874 Hörde - 1949 InterlakenTitel: Untitled (Elberfelder Torso).Date: 1909 (design).Technique: Bronze, green-brown patinated.Measurement: 86,5 x 38 x 28cm.Notation: Signed on the buttocks left: B. Hoetger.This bronze is one of two estate casts of the first version of the "Elberfelder Torso", here worked without arm relief (cf. cat. rais. Werner 58).Provenance:- Private collection North Rhine-WestphaliaLiterature:- Werner Wolfgang: 50 Plastiken aus den Pariser Jahren 1900 - 1910, with catalogue raisonné, Bremen 1977, cat. rais. no. 58- Cf. Roselius, Ludwig jr.: Bernhard Hoetger, 1874-1949, Sein Leben und Schaffen, Bremen 1974, cat. rais. no. 47In July 2021, the "Plane Tree Grove", artistically designed by Hoetger in 1911 as part of the Mathildenhöhe park in Darmstadt, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Dimensions 86,5 x 38 x 28cm Artist or Maker Bernhard Hoetger 1874 Hörde - 1949 Interlaken