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The Life and Art of
HERMAN WALD
(1906-1970)
Mother and Child 3.
1960
Wood. 73 x29 x 17 cm
Also entitled Zulu Mother and Child.
In the African woman Herman Wald discovered the paradigm of woman- and motherhood. Influenced by African tribal sculpture and its geometric rhythm Wald represents the mother, fused with the child on her back in her primordial, hieratic grandeur.
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