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BARLACH, ERNST 1870 Wedel - 1938 Rostock The Flame. 1934. Bronze, brown patinated. 113 x 38 x 18,5 cm. Signed and numbered on the plinth: E. Barlach 2/12. Foundry mark on the edge of the plinth: H. NOACK BERLIN. Number 2/12. Literature: Laur, Elisabeth: Ernst Barlach, Das plastische Werk, vol. II, Güstrow 2006, no. 556 (ill.) Cf. Barlach, Ernst: Plastische Meisterwerke, with an introduction by Anita Beloubeck-Hammer, Leipzig 1996, p. 136 f. "The flame" is an important large-size late work by Ernst Barlachs. The present casting is one of 12 numbered posthumous bronze castings from 1979. In 1934 the plaster model which Barlach gave to his friend, the collector Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg, was formed.