Lot 207: w - FRITZ SCHAPER GERMAN, 1841-1919

A BUST OF OTTO VON BISMARCK

measurements note
54cm., 21¼in.

signed and dated: SCHAPER III 85. and inscribed Aktien= Gesellschaft / vorm. / H. Gladenbeck & Sohn.

bronze, dark brown patina

NOTE

Schaper's bust of Bismarck depicts the great soldier-statesman in civilian clothes rather than uniform. Earlier in the 1870's, Schaper had depicted him in uniform for a life-size statue erected in Cologne. A bronze reduction of the monument survives in the Deutsches Historisches Museum (inv. PI 95/11). Fritz Klimsch was one of Schaper's pupils.

RELATED LITERATURE
Ethos und Pathos, pp.278-87