Karl Marx head

Lot 9026 limit € 220

Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 2 cuts through, model by Peter Strang, model no. Q 249, Böttger stoneware, portrait head of Karl Marx, slight signs of age, H approx. 21.5 cm, 1966. At the request of Walter Ulbricht, a series of busts of communist idols were made in the Meissner manufactory from 1966, including Friedrich Engels, Vladimir I. Lenin and Karl Marx.