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GOETZ: Opus 60 Arrived today from Germany

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Opus 60: A.M. PACHINGER, 1909, Cast AE, 75mm. Commemorating the archaeologist at age 44 in 1909. Obverse, Legend “A.M. PACHINGER-AETATIS-ANNO-XLIV (A.M. Pachinger at the age of 44 years). Reverse, Legendless. In exergue: MCMIX (1909). The theme on the reverse is alluding to Pachinger’s book “The Women in Pregnancy.” RARE


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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Not a theme you see every day now, is it? image A neat medal!!
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Another great piece of art.
    Bill

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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Scott - another dandy!! 75mm - wow those are large enough to really appreciate the art.
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Another nice one (but she looks more fat than pregnant).
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Nice medal as usual cacheman...

    What I really like about it is the tendency towards realism with regard to his design of the female figure, but as kind of a distortion of the "pure form" to achieve what has been called : The tendency to deform given artistic norms conceived as an approximation of reality;, as steve27 noted when he mentioned she looked fat. Refreshing to see by comparison to the more idealized female form. Goetz has the ability to shock not just with subject matter, but with this realistic "distortion", similar to the medal cacheman showed depicting the phallus-bound blindfolded woman, with a caricature of a black soldier on the obverse-leering, lustful, almost diabolical. His medals can pack a real emotional punch! No doubt if anyone tried this today, their "non-politically " correct subject matter and style might not be allowed.
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I agree with Laurent. I like the details of his medals too.

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