GOETZ: The Black Shame Varities

[Bronzemonger]

Goetz created this medal in four flavors and my theory is that he created K262 first and then was asked to "tone it down" a bit by a prospective buyer at which time he concealed the phallus by adding groundcover and roots to the base and created a limb with leaves to thinly imply it was a tree in K262(a). This change undoubtedly secured several sales but probably not many as evidenced by the rarity of the variety.

K.263 steps up the vitriol by swapping out the phallus for a kiosk with an inscription "To the scorn of the German Woman" in it's place. A baby, with obvious 'black' facial features, lies beneath the post.

Finally, K.264 (see last image) knocks the vitriol up the final notch showing the reverse inscription in doubled letters to indicate a long and anguished scream. You'll note that the Lorelei has doubling of her hands and legs to indicate her struggle against the symbolic phallus. Even Goetz' initials are doubled! This is by far the most rare of this series and I have only seen this medal previously in the Kienast book. Apparently ANS has one in their collection but even the nearly complete Boettcher collection sold via Moeller several years ago didn't have an example of this medal.

This fills a large hole in my collection.

K262


K262(a)


K263


K264