Theodor Stundl
Two brass reliefs with female profiles, c. 1920
brass decorated in relief
28.9 x 14.3 x 1.9 cm
11 3/8 x 5 5/8 x 3/4 in
11 3/8 x 5 5/8 x 3/4 in
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Two brass rectangular plaques, c. 1920, each with a circular medallion portrait relief of a woman in profile. The surface is patinated with iridescent colour, bolt holes at corners suggesting they were once fixed to something. A door, a wall, a piece of furniture, now gone. What they were part of is unknown. What remains is the face, the metal, and the slow colour of time. Delicate and melancholic.
Stundl was a Slovenian-Austrian sculptor working in the Viennese Secession tradition. These reliefs sit at the boundary between applied art and sculpture.
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