Ref: 2705
Cassowary Pair
Josef Pallenberg
Ref: 2705
Cassowary Pair
Josef Pallenberg
Circa 1914 - 1918
30.3 cm (11⁷/₈ inches)
Germany
on an irregular base plate, signed and dated Jos. Pallenberg on the reverse
30.3 cm (11⁷/₈ inches)
Germany
on an irregular base plate, signed and dated Jos. Pallenberg on the reverse
Literature: Martin Bartelmus, Stefan Schweizer: The Animal Sculptor Josef Pallenberg (1882–1946), Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2020
German Art Exhibition in the Cologne Flora, Hollow Electroplated Bronze Group Cassowary, Exhibition Catalog, Cologne 1906, Catalog No. 56
German Art Exhibition in the Cologne Flora, Hollow Electroplated Bronze Group Cassowary, Exhibition Catalog, Cologne 1906, Catalog No. 56
Description: Josef Pallenberg (Cologne 1882 - Duesseldorf 1946)
Created between 1914 and 1918 (World War I)
Electroplating
Electroplating is a metal sculpture created not by casting, but by electroplating a model that either remains in the final sculpture or is removed after electroplating. Due to their thin walls, they are comparatively light yet sturdy.
On an irregular base plate, signed and dated Jos. Pallenberg on the reverse.
Created between 1914 and 1918 (World War I)
Electroplating
Electroplating is a metal sculpture created not by casting, but by electroplating a model that either remains in the final sculpture or is removed after electroplating. Due to their thin walls, they are comparatively light yet sturdy.
On an irregular base plate, signed and dated Jos. Pallenberg on the reverse.
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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