Portrait of Siegmund Freud | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2002.66.21
People: Karl Maria Schwerdtner, Austrian (Vienna 1874 - 1916)
Title: Portrait of Siegmund Freud
Classification: Medals and Medallions
Work Type: medal
Date: 1906
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Austria
Culture: Austrian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/147257

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

100.71 g, 5.87 cm (2 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: "C.M. Schwerdtner Jun" incised below; CMS reverse on l.l.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: David N. Silich, Gift to Harvard University Art Museum, 5.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Corina and David Silich-von Schulthess in memory of Dr. Leo Mildenberg
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: 2002.66.21
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Obverse: Relief profile portrait bust facing right; above, "SIEGMUND FREUD WIEN MCMVI"
Reverse: Sphinx figure on boulder facing a standing male nude (Oedipus?) resting his proper right elbow on a walking stick in contemplation; text in Greek script to right side, "He solved the enigma and he was an extremely poweful man." (translation, Anna Tahinci 3/29/02)

Publication History

Lothar Muller, Freud's Dinge: Der Diwan, die Appolokerzen und die Seele im technischen Zeitalter, Die Andere Bibliothek (Berlin, 2019), p. 301, ill. (b/w)

Verification Level

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