2002.66.21: Portrait of Siegmund Freud
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.66.21
- People
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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
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- Signed: "C.M. Schwerdtner Jun" incised below; CMS reverse on l.l.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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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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