Head of Beethoven (Q60781259)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
Antoine Bourdelle (Q314350)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
depicts:
Ludwig van Beethoven (Q255)
instance of:
sculpture (Q860861)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1960.82
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: A pioneer of modern sculpture, Antoine Bourdelle studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked as an assistant to Augustin Rodin, who greatly admired the younger artist’s work. In 1888 Bourdelle produced the first of a series of sculptural portraits of Ludwig van Beethoven, in which the artist orchestrated powerful billowing shapes to convey the creative spirit or genius of the composer. The artist inscribed a quote from Beethoven in the lower left: “My domain is the air; when the wind rises my soul swirls.”
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