Bronze. With the engraved monogram and numbering on the reverse, near the bottom. Copy 3/5. 38.5 cm.

• A fusion of themes that were particularly relevant to Fritz Koenig: death, humanity, and horsemanship.
• In 2018, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence dedicated a spectacular retrospective to the German sculptor.
• In 1970, Koenig designed the bronze sculpture “The Sphere,” which was installed between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and today—though damaged, but still standing there—serves as a world-renowned memorial to the September 11 attacks.
LITERATURE: Dietrich Clarenbach, Fritz Koenig. Skulpturen. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2003, CR no. 631 (illustrated on p. 306) (here with a different height of 48 cm).

Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired directly from the artist; in the family’s possession ever since)

In very good condition.