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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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