Johannes Götz

Goetz, Johannes
German, 1865 - 1934

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The sculpture portrays a nude young boy in a balancing pose on a spherical object. The boy is captured in a posture with one arm raised and the other slightly bent. Crafted from bronze, the sculpture has a warm, brownish color with a subtle metallic sheen. The details of the boy's facial features and body are intricately sculpted. It is mounted on a dark marble base, providing stability. Overall, the sculpture conveys a sense of grace and poise through the balance and fluidity of the child's stance.
Johannes Götz, Boy Balancing on a Ball, model 1888, cast probably c. 1905, bronze, Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer, 1976.3.1

Boy Balancing on a Ball

Johannes Götz · model 1888, cast probably c. 1905 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1976.3.1

Bibliography

1907

  • Edited by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 1907-1950, 14(1921): 321.

1990

  • Ethos und Pathos: Die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786-1914. Edited by Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz, and Jutta von Simson. 2 vols. Exh. cat. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 1990: 1:113, 137, 138, 202, 255-256, 296, 329, 345, 466; 2:26-27 (Begas), 112-113.

1994

  • Bloch, Peter, and Waldemar Grzimek. Die Berliner Bildhauerschule im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Das klassische Berlin. Berlin, 1994: esp. 168, 278, 284, 285.

2000

  • Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 272.