GOETZ: Opus 327
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THE INN WORKS, 1925, Cast Bronze, 95mm
I am currently in negotiations to acquire this piece. According to the seller and several dealers I've spoke with here in the U.S., it is difficult to come up with a fair price since this has been offered so rarely. The current owner has had this piece for 20 years and in that time has not seen another. If we can find some prices realized from previous auctions we may be able to work something out. In the meantime I have to wait around until that happens. This is a beautiful example of this Opus.
I am currently in negotiations to acquire this piece. According to the seller and several dealers I've spoke with here in the U.S., it is difficult to come up with a fair price since this has been offered so rarely. The current owner has had this piece for 20 years and in that time has not seen another. If we can find some prices realized from previous auctions we may be able to work something out. In the meantime I have to wait around until that happens. This is a beautiful example of this Opus.
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I like the hand with the lightning bolts at top and the clasped hands below-what did they signify?
Oh, nice looker!
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
Not really...you forget that I focus on his large cast pieces and Goetz actually made more commemorative designs than political. In this case this medal is commemorating the opening of the chemical and metal plant in 1925. The inscription on the obverse "To the opening of the Inn plant 1917, The Reich and Bavaria 1925." On the reverse, "Nitrogen and Aluminum." Evidently the owner has the original presentation box that went with the piece too.
I also just picked up an early 1906 piece of Goetz's...a uniface portrait plaque showing his boss's, a Munich engraver, wife. This was done shortly after his return from Paris in 1904.
PS: You might note what I am finding to be an identifier of a Goetz piece...look at the disproportionate right hand of the left worker on the obverse. Some examples are more obvious than others but this guy has a "biggun"....
Thought I might as well plug in the auction image of the portrait plaque I mentioned above. Can't wait to get this in my hands for reimaging.
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But I love them- please don't stop with your collection and the wonderful posts.
Shep
Good luck with the negotiations; you could always offer a trade of your Gothics for this...
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5
"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
Sometimes we can read more into something then is actually there. In this case, Goetz modeled this metalworker wearing his hardhat...and it may be that they have them turned around much like people do with their ball caps nowadays. It appears that the farm laborer on the left probably has his shirt or cloth rolled into his hair to protect him from the sun (like what we do with a bandana). Goetz's original design for this medal was purely neo-classical in design and content, robed women. There is nothing in the subject matter, the commemoration of the opening of a manufacturing plant, to dictate any reason for Goetz to include phallic symbols. I mean, yeah, I can see what you're saying Boz, but I don't think that is the case in this medal.
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The hand gripping the lightning bolts is symbolic for power generation; running an aluminum plant at that time required quite a bit of power, whic is why this plant was sited on a major, fast-moving river.
I still lust after that Elsa, but I'm glad she found a great home!
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5
"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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Love to see your new purchases, when I open the forum your's is one of the post I open first; yet I have no intrest in collecting this area
Dan
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