Ref: 2499
Snarling Tiger
Josef Pallenberg
Ref: 2499
Snarling Tiger
Josef Pallenberg
1938
Patinated Bronze
18 x 48 cm (7¹/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches)
Signed: Jos Pallenberg Dated: 1938
Patinated Bronze
18 x 48 cm (7¹/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches)
Signed: Jos Pallenberg Dated: 1938
Literature: O. Bauer: A Modern Animal Sculptor. With 12 illustrations based on original photographs. In: Reclams Universum 26, 1910, pp. 591–596.
Horst Sieloff: Josef Pallenberg and His Animals. A cross-section of the Düsseldorf animal sculptor's work on the occasion of his 80th birthday. 1962
H. Rudolf Mückler: Josef Pallenberg 1882–1946. His Life, His Art, His Animals. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1992
Horst Sieloff: Josef Pallenberg and His Animals. A cross-section of the Düsseldorf animal sculptor's work on the occasion of his 80th birthday. 1962
H. Rudolf Mückler: Josef Pallenberg 1882–1946. His Life, His Art, His Animals. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1992
Description: Josef Pallenberg (Cologne 1882 - Duesseldorf 1946)
Green patinated bronze, original patina
Green patinated bronze, original patina
Josef Pallenberg
Josef Franz Pallenberg (1882–1946) was a German animalier sculptor whose art grew from lifelong, almost scientific observation of animals. Born in Cologne, he began drawing after childhood visits to the Cologne Zoo and later trained at the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Janssen. Rather than treating animals as decorative symbols, Pallenberg studied anatomy, skeletons, movement and temperament, building a large archive of sketches, casts and natural specimens. His reputation was established through exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin, where he showed numerous animal figures and won recognition for works such as Flying Eagle. Commissions for major zoological settings, including bronze groups for the entrances of Berlin Zoo and Hagenbeck’s Tierpark in Hamburg, brought his sculpture into public space. Lions, tigers, bears, eagles and prehistoric animals appear with muscular accuracy and psychological tension. His surviving bronzes preserve one of early twentieth-century Germany’s most disciplined, observant approaches to animal sculpture.
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