188 - Karl Prasse (Duisburg 1906–1997 Mühlheim/Ruhr), "Seated Female Torso," ca. 1960, cast aluminum, monogrammed on the underside, a scaled-down version of the sculpture of the same name installed in Mühlheim (location: Prinzeß-Luise-Str. 109); the “Seated Torso” is a key work in the artist’s oeuvre, as it is one of the last figurative works that Prasse created before he increasingly broke free from his attachment to the human body in the 1960s and turned to freer forms; H: 23.5 cm, on a square basalt pedestal (H: 7 cm, W: 12 cm, D: 12 cm), total height: 27 cm, from the estate of art historian Siegfried Salzmann (1928–1994), director of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg from 1971 to 1984 and director of the Bremer Kunsthalle from 1985 to 1993. Limit 108,-

Karl Prasse (Duisburg 1906–1997 Mühlheim/Ruhr), "Seated Female Torso," ca. 1960, cast aluminum, monogrammed on the underside, a scaled-down version of the sculpture of the same name installed in Mühlheim (location: Prinzeß-Luise-Str. 109); the “Seated Torso” is a key work in the artist’s oeuvre, as it is one of the last figurative works that Prasse created before he increasingly broke free from his attachment to the human body in the 1960s and turned to freer forms; H: 23.5 cm, on a square basalt pedestal (H: 7 cm, W: 12 cm, D: 12 cm), total height: 27 cm, from the estate of art historian Siegfried Salzmann (1928–1994), director of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg from 1971 to 1984 and director of the Bremer Kunsthalle from 1985 to 1993. Limit 108,- >> German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor; studied painting and graphic arts at the Duisburg Industrial School from 1926 to 1929, attended the Werkkunstschule in Hanover from 1929 to 1931, 1934–40: worked as a freelance commercial artist; his political caricatures directed against Hitler led to the confiscation of his works and their classification as “degenerate”; in the 1950s, he designed building facades; began working as a sculptor in 1958; a street in Duisburg is named after the artist.