Ernst Seger, Female nude 1900, signed on the reverse E. Seger, light Carrara marble elaborately hewn, from the roughly hewn base area rises the torso of an unclothed young beauty with sensuous, inclined head, old repaired, h 50 cm.Artist info: important German sculptor (1868 in Neurode until 1939 Berlin), among others. Pupil of Christian Behrens, 1893/94 worked in the studio of August Rodin in Paris, after that he founded his own studio in Berlin, from the end of the 19th century he received first bigger commissions for monuments and reached around 1900 popularity mainly by his art nouveau sculptures, here especially his nudes of girls, 1938 he was represented with three bronzes at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Munich House of German Art, Source: Internet.

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