Flute Player

Fritz Fleer (Berlin 1921 - Hamburg 1997)

1961. Bronze, dark patinated. H. 34 cm. On the reverse side of the base monogrammed fl, dated 1961, foundry mark GUSS BARTH. A boy playing the flute, sitting on a high pedestal with his legs crossed. Fleer, who created a series of thematically related basic figures over the course of four decades, also varied the type of flute player several times and, for example, created another boy with a flute in 1963, sitting on the ground with his legs stretched out - Literature: Illustration in: Fritz Fleer. Themes and Variations. Works 1941-1991. Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle, 1992, page 6 and page 100, no. 70 - Northern German sculptor and graphic artist, studied at the National Art School in Hamburg by Edwin Scharff, study tours to Denmark, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, USA, China and Kenya, received the Edwin Scharff Prize in 1966. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Flensburg. Lit.: Vollmer, Rump, The New Rump