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Bronze 28.5 x 20.5 x 8.5 cm. Artist's signum on top of cast-with plinth, edition number and foundry mark "GUSS BARTH BLN." on side of plinth. Exemplar 1/8 of 10 casts in total. - With golden-grey patina. Rudloff 719; Gerhard Marcks Werktagebuch Gips/Bronze (works diary plaster/bronze) 506 Exhibition i.a. Bielefeld 1963 (Städtisches Museum), Die Bronzetüren der Altstädter Nikolaikirche zu Bielefeld von Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 3; New York 1967 (Leonard Hutton Galleries), A Comprehensive Exhibition of Bronze Sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 93; Düsseldorf 1968 (Galerie Vömel), Gerhard Marcks - Holzskulpturen, Bronzen, Handzeichnungen, Graphische Blätter, cat. no. 31; Salzburg 1970 (Galerie Welz), Gerhard Marcks - Bronzen, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, cat. no. 18; Düsseldorf 1984 (Galerie Vömel), Gerhard Marcks und Griechenland. Skulpturen, Aquarelle, Ölkreiden, graphische Werke, with illus. n. pag. (other cast) As early as 1957 Gerhard Marcks had already created the bronzes "Eselreiter" (Donkey Rider; Rudloff 670) and "Maultierreiter" (Mule Rider; Rudloff 671); like the present motif these are to be traced back to impressions from his first journey to Greece. Marcks also used the motif of the "Griechischer Eselreiter" for the figure of the riding Christ on the 1962 bronze doors for Bielefeld's Nikolaikirche (St Nicholas Church; Rudloff 783).