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Hand, n. d.

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Bronze, marble
52.5×30×23 cm 15.8×16.2×16.2 cm 17.5×1.2 cm 16.2×16.2×16.2 cm

Artists

  • Ivan Meštrović

    (Vrpolje 1883–1962 South Bend)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962) came to Vienna in 1900 from the Dalmatian Hinterland. Blessed with a natural aptitude, he decided to study sculpture. With his training at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between 1901 and 1904 he laid the foundations for his artistic career, which took him to France, Italy, Switzerland and eventually to the US. The larger than life-sized hand was modeled in a naturalistic manner. Protruding vertically from the plinth, it suggests a raised arm with an upheld hand. The sculptor paid close attention to rendering the individual fingers: delicate, long, splayed and slightly bent, they invest the hand with a powerful, eloquent gesture.

AK, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Ivan Meštrović
Title
Hand
Date
n. d.
Category
Sculpture
Material​/technique
Bronze, marble
Dimensions
52.5×30×23 cm 15.8×16.2×16.2 cm 17.5×1.2 cm 16.2×16.2×16.2 cm
Signature
Signed: Meštrović
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4593
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
Keywords
postures and gestures of hand and fingershandskulpture

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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