Designed 1968, made aftert 1970. Gold patinated bronze. H. 47,5 cm. Artist's signet and foundry stamp: GUSS BARTH RINTELN, num. Ex. 5/10. Here Marcks adopts the stance motif of the ancient kouros for a female figure - Expertise: Cat. Rais. Rudloff 927 (shown here is a casting numbered 1/10. Casting from 1968, cast at Barth in Berlin, with the reference that 10/10 castings were intended, which were then apparently executed after the Barth foundry moved to Rinteln). - German sculptor, graphic artist a. draughtsman, since 1907 he shared a studio with R. Scheibe, he taught at the Berlin art school before being called as teacher to the Weimar Bauhaus by W. Gropius, inspired by L. Feininger he started producing woodcuts, in 1928 he was awarded the Villa Romana prize a. became head of the art school Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, expelled by the Nazis in 1933 he lived in Ahrenshoop, in 1945 he became lecturer at the Hamburg Landeskunstschule. Mus.: Köln (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Bremen, Hannover a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump a. others.