Big Two V

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Fritz Koenig: Big two V , 1974, bronze sculpture

Große Zwei V (Roman 5) is a bronze sculpture by the sculptor Fritz Koenig from 1973. It measures 262 × 164.5 × 65 cm and is located in Munich in the Maxvorstadt district in the immediate vicinity of the Neue Pinakothek in the Munich art area .

The subtitle of the sculpture is Paolo and Francesca . He refers to the adulterous lovers Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini in the 5th book of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri . The couple's fate was the motif of numerous works of music and the visual arts, including those of Rodin and Ingres . Several works in Koenig's sculptural oeuvre bear this title, such as a documenta edition made of Rosenthal porcelain from 1963 (Wkvz. No. 335a) and two small iron half-shells from 1980 (Wkvz. 717 and 718).

"The pillars of the body of the two figures find support on a sphere, the old symbol of fate, only for the brief moment of union - a union that is made evident by two hemispheres striving to complement each other ..."

- Peter Anselm Riedl

The sculpture stands on a rectangular, flat plinth , is labeled Koenig and bears the catalog raisonné no. 563. It was bought directly from the artist by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung and has inventory number B 681. It was originally located on Barer Strasse.

literature

  • Wolf-Dieter Dube : Fritz Koenig. State Gallery of Modern Art, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Publishing House, State Gallery of Modern Art, 1974, p. 199.
  • Ludwig von Buerkel (Hrsg.): Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. Volume XXV, Prestel Verlag, Munich 1975, p. 249.
  • Dietrich Clarenbach, Peter Anselm Riedl : Fritz Koenig: Sculptures catalog raisonné. Hirmer, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7774-9380-5 , pp. 17, 155.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Koenig: Große Zwei V  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ilka Soennecken: Dante's Paolo and Francesca in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. VDG-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89739-294-1 .
  2. ^ Fritz Koenig: Sculptures catalog raisonné. 2003, pp. 291, 311.
  3. ↑ Peter Anselm Riedel: Fritz Koenig and the subject of transience. (PDF; 52 kB) p. 5.
  4. ^ Fritz Koenig: Sculptures catalog raisonné. 2003, p. 303.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 58.6 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 19.7 ″  E