Comradeship (group of figures)

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The German pavilion in Paris, the group on the left in front of the entrance

Kameradschaft was a monumental group of figures by the Austrian sculptor Josef Thorak .

He created them as one of two bronze groups for the entrance area of ​​the German pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris . The work showed two naked men standing side by side, looking up at the sky, shaking hands. The statues were 6.70 meters high. A plaster copy of the group was shown in the summer of 1937 at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich . The whereabouts of the two figures is unknown.

literature

  • Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Paul Wood: Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars (= Modern art - practices and debates Volume 3) Yale University Press, New Haven 1993, p.
  • Birgit Jooss: The “joyful collaboration” of the Munich Art Academy in the “national survey of the people”. The years 1924 to 1944 , In: Volker Probst u. a. (Ed.): Shape - Form - Figure . Güstrow 2008, pp. 49–60, here p. 55 ( digitized version ).
  • Claudia Büttner: History of Art in Architecture in Germany . Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlin 2011, pp. 7–8 ( digitized version ).

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