Georg Kolbe
KOLBE, GEORG
1877 Waldheim/Saxony - 1947 Berlin
Title: Kauernde Marburg (Stucco).
Subtitle: Design.
Date: Ca. 1925-28.
Technique: Stucco.
Measurement: 46 x 21 x 24cm.
Notation: Monogrammed on the plinth beside the left leg: GK (lig.).
On the underside is the remnant of a sticker with the legible numbers "558". Below this, partially covered by the sticker, the handwritten numbers "525" can be seen.
There are also nine copies of the sculpture in bronze approximately the same size as the design offered here, which were produced during Kolbe's lifetime by the Kunstgießerei Hermann Noack, Berlin-Friedenau.
Provenance:
- Private collection Düsseldorf (since 1959/60 in family possession)
Literatur:
- Cf. Binding, Rudolf G.: Vom Leben der Plastik - Inhalt und Schönheit des Werkes von Georg Kolbe, Berlin 1933, p. 57ff., ill.
- Cf. Berger, Ursel: Georg Kolbe - Leben und Werk, Berlin 1990, p. 84f., ill.
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