Elsa Fraenkel 1892-1975
Head of Chungsen Chou, 1928
bronze
36 (h) x 20.5 (w) x 55 (d) cm
2018-19
© Elsa Fraenkel estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
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Fraenkel’s head of the young Chinese architecture student, Chungsen Chou, has much in common with the work of Estonian émigrée sculptor Dora Gordine, who made a particular study of non-European...
Fraenkel’s head of the young Chinese architecture student, Chungsen Chou, has much in common with the work of Estonian émigrée sculptor Dora Gordine, who made a particular study of non-European models. Two further casts are known: one in stone in the Sprengel Museum, Hanover and a further bronze in the Niedersächsische Landesmuseen in Braunschweig.
Provenance
Presented to Leighton House Museum by Elsa Fraenkel in 1938 and thence to Ben Uri Collection 2018Related artists
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Jankel Adler
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Frank Auerbach
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Martin Bloch
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David Bomberg
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Jacob Bornfriend
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Marc Chagall
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Hugo Dachinger
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Arnold Daghani
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Ernst Eisenmayer
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Hans Feibusch
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Elsa Fraenkel
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Eva Frankfurther
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Henryk Gotlib
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George Grosz
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Josef Herman
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Dora Holzhandler
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Heinz Koppel
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Ludwig Meidner
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Kurt Schwitters
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Arthur Segal
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Chaïm Soutine
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Elisabeth Tomalin
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Feliks Topolski
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Harry Weinberger
