3683 - Thomas Sigl, Female Nude with Bowl

Thomas Sigl, Female Nude with Bowl c. 1943, signed Sigl, bronze with a light brown patina, a crouching female nude with a small bowl, on a small square plinth, in the minimalist, slightly glossy style of the period, with a subtly textured surface, slightly worn, H 25 cm. Info: the design was exhibited in 1943 at the Great German Art Exhibition in Hall 29; the buyers were Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann. Source: website of the Great German Art Exhibition 1937-1944. Artist information: Thomas Sigl (1903, Offenbach am Main - date of death unknown), German sculptor; a pupil of Richard Scheibe at the State Academy of Sculpture in Frankfurt am Main; worked as a freelance artist in Offenbach from 1928 onwards, creating mainly portraits, free-standing statues, animal sculptures and reliefs, as well as frescoes, executed in materials including plaster, wood, terracotta and bronze; his works were shown at regional and national exhibitions, including the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich.