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Cupid as a Beggar

Georg Heinrich Joseph Schwabe

Basic information

ID: С-I-2431
Author: Georg Heinrich Joseph Schwabe
Name: Cupid as a Beggar
Country: Germany
Culture: Modern times Contemporary times
Technique: moulding
Material: toned plaster
Dimensions (height x diameter, cm): 11.8 x 27.6

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Type: sculpture
Genre: mythological painting genre art

Information about author

Author: Georg Heinrich Joseph Schwabe
Artist's lifetime: 1847–1924
Country: Germany
Biography: Georg Heinrich Joseph Schwabe (31 October 1847, Wiesbaden – 23 December 1924, Munich) was a painter, sculptor, porcelain modeller, and teacher. From 1859, he studied at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts under Wilhelm Dull, Peter Lenz, and August von Kreling, who hired him as an assistant in his private studio. In 1869, the artist spent three months in Rome and began his independent professional activity in Munich. He worked on the creation of small decorative statuettes that gained recognition. Several of them were bought and raffled off by the Albrecht Durer Association in 1875. At the same time, with the assistance of A. von Kreling, G. H. J. Schwabe was appointed professor of sculpture at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts and held the position until 1907. From 1877 to 1780, he created a series of 27 cupids for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen. He was an honorary member of the Historical Association of Nuremberg.

Object description

The small figure of a cupid as a beggar, made in tinted plaster, is probably a model of one of the numerous porcelain figurines of the mythological character in G. H. J. Schwabe's oeuvre. Pompous in pose and facial expression, it demonstrates the conflict between the means of figurative and plastic expression of decorative and applied art and easel sculpture.

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