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GEORG KOLBE

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR
GEORG KOLBE
(Waldheim/Saxony 1877-1947 Berlin) Crouching Figure, bronze, gold-brown patina, with monogram GK (ligature), founder's stamp H. Noack, Berlin, presumably one of circa 10 period copies, 28.5 x 21 x 17 cm, Berger 76, (PM). The model was destroyed after 1960. According to Noack, Berlin, the founder's stamp "H. Noack Berlin" was already in use prior to WWII. Certificate: Margit Schwartzkopff, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, 11 Jan. 1965. Provenance: Bassenge Gallery, Berlin; Collection Herbert and Natalie Kirschner, New York. Literature: Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe, Das Plastische Werk, in: Weltkunst, 15.11.1985, p. 352, ill. 5, a different copy; Rudolf G. Binding, Vom Leben der Plastik, Inhalt und Schönheit des Werkes von Georg Kolbe, Berlin 1933, p. 59 (ill. of the fountain figure); Georg Kolbe, Bildwerke, Vom Künstler ausgewählt, Leipzig 1939, cat. no. 8 (ill. of the fountain figure). The comparatively sketchy "Crouching Figure" served as a model for the nearly life-sized version produced to crown a fountain of the banker Hugo Simon (cf. Berger 77). The small version was originally displayed in 1925 by Cassirer, and later featured in numerous exhibitions. Its casual, natural pose and rough surface distinguish it clearly from the stylised sculptures of the early 1920's.
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