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Prancing Horse, 1929

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Herbert Boeckl estate,
Vienna
Bronze
74×110×40 cm

Artists

  • Herbert Boeckl

    (Klagenfurt 1894–1966 Vienna)

Currently on display at EG
In 1929, Herbert Boeckl (1894–1966) began working on a sculpture titled Prancing Horse. The painter used his fingers to form small beads of plasticine, which he stuck on a metal frame. He thus employed a technique that had also been used – albeit with clay – by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and later Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966). The agitated, turbulent surface of the bronze can be compared to the pastose paint application in his paintings. The way the artist used brushes or palette knives and sometimes even pressed the paint out of the tube directly onto the canvas is paralleled in Prancing Horse.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Herbert Boeckl
Title
Prancing Horse
Date
1929
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Sculpture
Material​/technique
Bronze
Dimensions
74×110×40 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6903
Inventory access
Accession 2021
Selection of Reference works
  • Herbert Boeckl. Retrospektive, hrsg. von Agnes Husslein-Arco/Matthias Boeckl Wien 2009 (Ausst.-Kat. Belvedere, Wien, 21.10.2009-31.01.2010).
Catalogue raisonne
  • Husslein-Arco 2009: 186
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.-2010);
Rudolf Leopold jr., Wien (2010-2021); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2021).

  1. Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Datenbankeintrag zu LM 6903

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