| Benedikt Fruth, Münich second half 18th Century | |
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Polychrome terracotta group showing two panthers attacking a horse on a narrow oblong plinth. In 1998, Frank Matthias Kammel went in search of the traces the terracotta sculptor who played such an important role for Nymphenburg Manufactory. But even he could not find more than Friedrich H. Hofmann 70 years before him. Benedikt Fruth was the son of a sculptor and lived in his Lower Bavarian hometown of Kelheim from his birth in 1745 until his death in 1819. h. 19 x 27 x 9 cm. Literature A similar group of horses with wolves, attributed to Auliczek, in Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg, Zweites Buch, Leipzig 1923, fig. 194. In Hofmann's third book, p. 492, the first mention of "a potter Fruth in Kelheim" who made "very beautiful animal pieces in clay". Cf. the Nymphenburg animal hunt groups in porcelain, attributed to Auliczek, in Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan. Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart 1997, fig. 175 ff. See also Kammel, Blutrünstige Tafeldekoration. Zwei Tierhatzgruppen von Benedikt Fruth, in: Monatsanzeiger. Germanisches Nationalmuseum 5/1998. Cf. Eikelmann (ed.), Franz Anton Bustelli. Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko. Das Gesamtwerk, Munich 2004, fig. 49, the horse chase from the Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Kunstsammlungen. S.a. Musée de la Chasse & de la Nature Paris, inv.inv. 006 164 1, also here attributed to Benedikt Fruth. S.a. Maué, Die Bildwerke des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Mainz 2005, cat. no. 156. Provenance Provenance Former collection of Gottfried Eisler (1861–1924), Vienna. |
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