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Babberger, August
1885 Hausen i. Wiesental - 1936 Altdorf.
Head with aureole.
After 1920. Polychrome and golden glass mosaic on wood, in an ebonised wooden frame. Verso numbered «R 1027/1», inscribed «Entw.: Prof. Babberger Ausf.: Puhl-Wagner Heinersdorf-Berlin (design: Prof. Babberger execution: Puhl-Wagner Heinersdorf-Berlin)» and on a label badly legible inscribed «[...] Bln. P.O. 3l. [...] 80».
H 36, W 29 cm (mosaic).
In 1920 August Babberger was appointed professor at the Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe, where he had already studied on the advice of Hans Thoma. His large-scale expressionistic mosaics in the collegiate church of Neustadt an der Weinstraße show his extraordinary skills in this field. The company Puhl & Wagner, founded in Berlin in 1889, was the largest manufacturer of glass mosaics and stained glass in Germany at that time and regularly executed Babberger's designs.

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