Goslar Warrior

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Cast of the Goslar warrior in the Pfalzgarten of Goslar, in July 2012.
Cast of the Goslar warrior ( Spanish El Guerrero de Goslar ) in Santa Cruz on Tenerife , April 2005.

The Goslar Warrior , in German Goslar Warrior , is a bronze sculpture by the English sculptor Henry Moore . The Henry Moore Foundation cataloged the work under the name LH 641. Seven casts were made of the approximately three-meter-long sculpture, two of which are set up in public spaces .

From 1973 to 1974, the work of art called Fallen warrior ( German  Fallen Warriors ), but was in 1975, after the donation by the Schenning Foundation to the city of Goslar , by the artist in Goslar Warrior , so Goslar Warrior renamed. The artist chose the garden of the Kaiserpfalz Goslar as the location . In the same year, Moore received the Goslarer Kaiserring as thanks . There is a maquette of the figure in the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar .

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the second location of a cast of the figure in public space. The seventh and final cast of the sculpture reached a sale price of 1.8 million pounds at auction at Christie's London auction house in February 2011 .

reception

The magazine Geo describes the “torso-like figure with a bald head as a person who, in the last rearing up, realizes the futility of his death and dies in agony. Moore's poignant accusation against the war is deliberately placed in the axis behind the imperial palace, in front of which the rulers stand in a representative way - the fallen, defenseless, dying soldier, on the other hand, is anonymous and represents many victims. "According to R. Schwarz, the work shows the" Shape of a warrior at the moment of his death, the protective shield is unfurled, the defenseless has become a defenseless one; a dramatic scene, but without any pathos ”.

Michael Kaiser wrote in the Braunschweiger Zeitung : “His shield has slipped away from him, he stares out of dead eye sockets, you look for body parts and only find choppy things; twisted, wounded, defenseless, the torso seems to want to rear up one last time. A moving sight: everything is just pain, defeat, destruction. The alternation between figurative and abstract elements gives the sculpture a tremendous tension. Moore succeeds in creating an impressive connection between ancient quotations and contemporary design language. "

Web links

Commons : Goslarer Krieger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Moore Foundation, LH 641, Goslar . In: henry-moore.org.
  2. ↑ a b Goslar warriors . In: Geo of October 6, 2011.
  3. ^ Henry Moore Foundation, LH 641, Tenerife . In: henry-moore.org.
  4. ↑ Christie's Impressionist / Modern Evening Sale . In: christies.com.
  5. ↑ Michael Kaiser: Goslar warriors . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of July 5, 2002.