Zueinander I. 1953.
Bronze relief on an uneven squared plate.
Bottom center monogrammed. From an edition of 8 copies. 30.3 x 32.5 cm (11.9 x 12.7 in).
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• One of only eight known copies.
• The motif is taken from Ewald Mataré's relief panel “Dankspende des Deutschen Volkes für Schweden”, which is housed in a government building in Stockholm.
• In 1953, the artist was awarded the Grand Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and had a solo exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (purchased directly from the artist).
Private collection, Hamburg.
Galerie Margret Heuser, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, Rhineland (since 2009).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Margret Heuser, Düsseldorf, autumn 2009, cat. no. 35.

LITERATURE: Sabine M. Schilling, Ewald Mataré. Das plastische Werk, Cologne 1987, cat. rais. no. 388 (with b/w ill. p. 236, different copy).
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Hans T. Flemming, Ewald Mataré, Munich 1955 (with ill. no. 35, different copy).
Toni Feldenkirchen, Zeichen von der Erde und den Himmeln, in: Weltkunst, 1977, issue 5, p. 404 (with ill., different copy).

In good to very good condition. Small discolorations and a few weak spots and tiny scratches above the head in the area of the female figure. With a twisted wire running around the upper edge, probably original.