A full-figure figure depicting a young man with a book.It is an image of a fifteenth-century student singing the title "Panem propter deum". The words refer to the feast speeches of Martin Luther, studying at the parish school in Eisenach.
Signature: Beer
France, 19th century
Patinated bronze/ span>
Dimensions: 50cm x 20cm x 12cm
Base diameter: 17cm
Friedrich Beer (1846-1912) - French sculptor of Austrian origin. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with such masters as Carl Radnitzky and Franz Bauer. In 1870, he received a three-year Roman scholarship and a related studio located in Palazzo di Venezia. In 1873 he settled in Paris focusing his work on sculptural representations of women and children, including the young Martin Luther and Albrecht Dürer. He spent the last decade of his life in Italy.
