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Germany. Munich. Winter 1945-46. In the devasted Academy of Arts' storeroom. Plaster-cast group. The upright
The figural group on the left is probably a design for a large motorway monument by Josef Thorak, who, as Academy lecturer, had an atelier here. The seated figure in the middle is a plaster cast of the seated Hermes of the Herculaneum with an aries-relief from the school of German artist Adolph Hildebrand.
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