Hans GURADZE (1861-1922) - Sculpture

Hans GURADZE (1861–1922) – Return from the Fields Bronze group with brown patina, signed, on a veined green marble base – Germany, circa 1900 Subject. A scene of rural life: a farmer wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a long coat brings his three workhorses home after a day’s labor. He rides one bareback and leads the second beside him, while the third follows with its muzzle against the tail of the horse in front. The animals still wear their collars and harnesses, and the detached traces hang along their flanks. Their bowed necks, wind-tossed manes, and heavy steps convey the day’s fatigue. The naturalistic base depicts a patch of earth and rock. Artist. Hans Guradze was born in 1861 in Kottulin, Upper Silesia, and died in Berlin in 1922. Trained at the Dresden Academy and then at the school of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts, he came to prominence in 1892 with an equestrian statuette of Emperor Wilhelm II. He later specialized in small edition bronzes, with horses as his favorite subject. He is listed in Thieme-Becker and Bénézit. Period. Late 19th–early 20th century, circa 1900, in the realist, animalier tradition of the Berlin school. Material. Bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina, with raised areas highlighted in places. The group rests on a rectangular base of green marble veined with white. Signature. “GURADZE,” incised on the base.

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