William Wauer

Private Collection

Herwarth Walden, ed., Expressionismus, Die Kunstwende, Berlin, 1918, illustration of another cast p. 101
Carl László, William Wauer, Basel, 1979, illustration of another cast p. 9
Georg Brühl, Herwarth Walden und "Der Sturm," Cologne, 1983, illustration of another cast p. 55
Stephanie Barron, German Expressionist Sculpture (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. & Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne, 1984, illustration of another cast p. 209
German Expressionism 1915-1925. The Second Generation (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf & Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, 1988-89, illustrations of another cast pp. 13 & 185
Peter H. Feist, Figur und Objekt, Plastik im 20. Jahrhundert, Leipzig, 1996, illustration of another cast p. 43
Ursula Peters & Andrea Legde, Kulturgeschichtliche Spaziergänge im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Moderne Zeiten, die Sammlung zum 20. Jahrhundert, vol. III, Nuremberg, 2000, illustration of another cast p. 63
Klara Drenker-Nagels, "William Wauer, Ein massgeblicher Künstler der 'Sturm' Bewegung," in Weltkunst, August 2001, no. 2, illustration of another cast p. 1277

Attractive dark brown patina. There is one small surface scratch under the hair at the back of the figure's head and another in the figures hair at the upper left. There is some light patina rubbing on figures neck, otherwise fine. This work is in very good condition.
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Sotheby's is delighted to offer the following group of early modern artwork relating to the ever-influential Der Sturm (The Storm) movement, spanning the 1910s through the early 1930s. This selection is led by the bronze bust by William Wauer of Herwarth Walden (lot 116), the German artist and founder of the highly influential German magazine Der Sturm and subsequent gallery of the same name. In honor of Walden and the extraordinary community that he created across various different threads of the European avant-garde, we have sequenced the following works by key artists that he championed and supported. The following lots—by artists including Schlemmer, Balla, Archipenko, Bauer, Rebay, Kandinsky and Klee—may be stylistically various, but indeed all are connected by their author's affiliation, at some point, with either the Der Sturm magazine or the offshoot gallery. To be supported by Walden and featured in Der Sturm was the ultimate confirmation that an artist was making work that was truly radical and cutting edge. Indeed the term Sturm was chosen by Walden to represent the way in which modern art was penetrating Germany at the time.

Walden is widely acknowledged as one of the most important promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century, and the influence of his magazine (published between 1910 and 1932) and gallery’s exhibition program is without parallel. The magazine did not feature German art exclusively however, and Walden successfully brought together his native German avant-garde with artists from across Europe, paying particular attention to artists associated with experimental movements including  Cubism, Dada, Surrealism as well as Italian Futurism. Der Sturm included fiction, poetry, cultural criticism and political essays, but its primary focus was the visual arts. The magazine became particularly well-known for the significant inclusion of woodcuts and linocuts by artists including Chagall, Klee, Marc and Kandinsky.