Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing of Arno Breker’s “Bereitschaft” - Readiness
Created in 1939, it depicts a male nude drawing a sword, with excellently modelled muscles and sketchily modelled outlines of the head. The plinth in the form of rocks, inscribed with the artist's signature "A. Breker" and foundry mark "Guss Schmäke Düsseldorf".
The aesthetic military propaganda-value message of such a sculpture (that the man, with his sword half-drawn, is ready for battle) is clearly rooted in the year of its release, 1939, the sculpture symbolic of how the German people must prepare themselves for war.
This was planned as one of the grandstands in the colonnade at Tribünenbau at Zeppelintribüne (Zeppelin field), standing at approx. 3.89 m. on a 1.5m stone pedestal, later moved to Berlin and erected on Theodor Heuss Square.
It was also exhibited at the Grosse Deutsche Kunstaustellung of 1939 in the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich.
