Bronze with a golden brown patina.
Braun 121. With the monogram in ligature on the sole of the left foot and with the foundry stamp "H. Noack Berlin". Height: 31.6 cm.
Hermann Braun was able to reconstruct the date “before 1924” on the basis of the fact that a nephew of Fritz Klimsch acquired a cast of “Beschaulichkeit” in 1924 (cf. Hermann Braun, Fritz Klimsch. Eine Dokumentation, Cologne 1991, p. 359). Cast by the art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin (with the foundryman's stamp). Casting date unknown, probably 1960s. [JS].
- Together with Georg Kolbe, Fritz Klimsch is one of the most important German sculptors of the first half of the 20th century. - "Beschaulichkeit" is one of the artist's most famous bronzes. - This is the first work in which Klimsch accomplished a complex introspective movement motif, which the artist would later use in his depictions of nudes. - Like Kolbe's “Sitzende” (1928/29), Klimsch's “Beschaulichkeit” personifies an internalized, contemplative expression.
LITERATURE: (Selection) Hermann Braun, Fritz Klimsch. Werke, Hanover 1980, pp. 50f., no. 17, illu. (different copy). Die Bildhauer August Gaul und Fritz Klimsch, Frankfurt a. Main 2010, p. 250, cat. no. 128 (different copy).