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Felix Pfeifer, Children's round dance 1st half of the 20th century, signed, copper bronze dark patinated, slightly abstracted dancing girls with blowing hair, on round plinth, somewhat rubbed, h ca. 25,5 cm. Artist info: German sculptor and medalist (1871 Leipzig to 1945 ibid.), 1890 to 1893 studied at the Leipzig Art Academy with Melchior zur Straßen, from 1894 at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Art Academy with Peter Breuer and Ernst Herter, study visits to Rome (1895-1896) and Paris (1900), 1906 to 1911 worked in Dresden, later as a freelance sculptor in Leipzig, 1914 appointment as professor, furnished the choir room of the Leipzig Nikolaikirche with four large-scale alabaster reliefs, made reliefs for the main portal of the New Town Hall and the facade figures Philosophy, Industry and Medicine above the entrance to the German Library in Leipzig, 1939, 1940 and 1941 Pfeifer was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, among others. Among other things, in 1940 with a marble bust of Anton Bruckner, in addition to free and architectural sculptural works in the Leipzig area, his achievements in the field of relief, medal and plaque art are particularly noteworthy , source: Wikipedia.

plauen, Germany