Adolf Meyer (1867-1940) - The Swiss Surgeon August Socin - Bronze

Beautiful bronze proof with a nuanced brown patina by the Swiss sculptor Adolf Meyer (1867-1940). The full-length man represented is none other than the doctor and surgeon from Vevey, August Socin (1837-1899). This transalpine doctor held an important place in medical education for university students. This professor of surgery in Basel learned his trade in particular in the military hospitals of Verona in Italy and Karlsruhe. He specialized in particular in grastroenterology and studied assiduously the problems of inguinal hernia.

The sculptor Adolf Meyer born in Basel and died in Zollikon learned plaster and took classes at the school of drawing and sculpture in Basel. A stucco specialist in Berlin (1888), a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in that city in the master class of Reinhold Begas, he returned to Switzerland in 1897, settled in Zurich, then in Zollikon, where he worked for the rest of his life. The early works of this artist specializing in architectural sculpture, still marked by the monumental style of nationalist inspiration, gradually gave way to more refined motifs, the result of a quest for stripped-down and serene forms in the spirit of an Adolf von Hildebrand. In addition to his large sculptures, he also made funerary monuments, bust portraits and small humorous sculptures. In particular, he made the plaster bas-relief of the Federal Palace on the theme of the right of asylum (1901). His works are kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern and the Kunsthaus in Zurich.

Height: 31 cm.

Good condition.