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Slaves (Love Slaves)

Janina Reichert-Toth

Basic information

ID: С-I-74
Author: Janina Reichert-Toth
Name: Slaves (Love Slaves)
Date of creation: 1920s
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: modeling
Material: plaster
Dimensions (height x width x depth, cm): 48 x 46 x 42

Additionally

Type: sculpture
Genre: narrative art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery, purchased from TSPP, 1930
Exposition: Lozinski Palace

Information about author

Author: Janina Reichert-Toth
Artist's lifetime: 1895–1985
Biography: Janina Reichert-Toth (22.06.1895, Staryi Sambir – 1985, Krakow). From 1915 to 1918 she studied at the School of Arts and Industry in Lviv, from 1921 she studied at the Krakow Academy of Art under Konstanty Laszczka. In 1925, together with K. Dunikowski E. Wittig collaborated at an international exhibition in Brussels. She belonged to the Union of Ten Plastic Artists. In 1939, was admitted to the Union of Artists. After 1946, she moved to Krakow with her husband. Together with him performed a number of monumental monuments and tombstones in Krakow.

Object description

Sculptural composition depicting two heads. On the left is the head of a young man, tilted backwards and pressed against the woman's head, which in its turn is also tilted backwards and pressed against the man's neck. The eyes of both characters are closed. The composition is striking in its psychology: the seemingly emotionless, drama-stricken figures – their heads are tensely drawn towards each other, which is emphasised by the neck muscles stretched like a string.

Slaves (Love Slaves)

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