Leipziger Hoehn Auction winnings

cacheman

I was just notified today that I was the high bidder on these three Goetz pieces. Will post color images once they arrive!!

Opus 134


Opus 215


Opus 274

1jester

Wow! What biting sarcasm! Gotta love all of them even though the second one is anti-American!

cosmicdebris

Won't be long now before you have all 634 Opuses.

CIVITAS

Gee, Goetz really had a thing for phallic symbols didn't he? Opus 274 is just a tad bit suggestive, hmm?

cacheman

hmmmm, now that you mention it, it does appear that someone is having a taffy pull....

Askari

Congratulations!! Can't wait to see them in living color!!

cacheman

Email notification of mailing this morning so they might be here by Christmas....

lordmarcovan

I find those, like much of his work, ugly but interesting. What's the rundown on the Opus 215? Uncle Sam and John Bull (and a tiny Frenchman?) tying up a prostrate Germany after WW1? Something to do with the Treaty of Versailles? Translation, please?



<< <i>Gee, Goetz really had a thing for phallic symbols didn't he? Opus 274 is just a tad bit suggestive, hmm? >>




<< <i>hmmmm, now that you mention it, it does appear that someone is having a taffy pull.... >>



That, or somebody at the Solingen factory had a bad day and turned out some sadly deficient merchandise!
With swords like that, no wonder they lost WW1! (not that swords had much impact in the trenches...)

cacheman

Actually, the sword is French...the medal criticizes the French justice on the Rhine for their occupation troops. This medal implies that the German women are free objects to be hunted by colonial troops of the French and that German residences were converted into brothels by the French military authorities. I think you get the picture...

Askari

He's also attacking the sanctimoniousness of the Allies for agreeing to an armistice and yet continuing the blockade against Germany -- which badly needed foodstuffs, medicine, etc. for its civilian population.