Two head fragments · Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3041282
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
Rolf Christoph Lutz (1930-2016), Gernsbach, GermanyLutz worked as medical doctor for the Basler Mission in Bawku, Agogo and Bechem in Ghana from 1958 to 1967.
Born in 1930 in Kaying, South China where his parents already worked for the Basel Mission, after his studies he knew that he would like to work as a missionary doctor as did his father. After graduation, he decided to choose Ghana. Beginning in 1958 he worked with his wife Eva-Maria, in a hospital in Bawku in the north of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso, as well as in Agogo and Bechem. In 1967, he returned with his family to Germany.
Description
a) memorial head, fired beige clay, pigment remains, h: 11 cm, Hemang/Ghana; additional: head fragment, fired black clay, red pigment, h: 18 cm, Niger, originally once topping a vessel, both objects mounted on pedestal