Georg Kolbe:
Sculpture "Grief" (1921), Bronze
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ars mundi special edition | Limited, 199 copies | Numbered | Signatur | Foundry stamp | Bronze | Patinated | Format 38 x 52,5 x 23 cm (H/W/D) | Weight 11 kg
In 191 the "Dancer" by Georg Kolbe has becomehis most popular work till nowadays, and in Berlin of those times it created a real sensation. The topic of dace and the expressive, even extatic movement, runs through all the works of the artist up to the 20-s when he created the famous "Kneeling".
In the decade between these two works Kolbe had received the title of professor (1918) and found - together with Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck - admission to the Prussian Academy of the Arts (1919). In the 1920s he was undoubtedly one of the most important plastic artists in Germany, and so the great art collectors all over the world became aware of him. A copy later found its way into the legendary Nelson Rockefeller art collection. It was the model for our exclusive edition.
Original: Rockefeller Collection/The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Sculpture in fine bronze, patinated. Cast by hand in lost wax casting technique. The shape was taken directly from the original. Limited edition of 199 copies, individually numbered and signed, and provided with the foundry hallmark. Format 38 x 52.5 x 23 cm (H/W/D). Weight 11 kg. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
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Georg Kolbe: Sculpture "Grief" (1921), Bronze
In 191 the "Dancer" by Georg Kolbe has becomehis most popular work till nowadays, and in Berlin of those times it created a real sensation. The topic of dace and the expressive, even extatic movement, runs through all the works of the artist up to the 20-s when he created the famous "Kneeling".
In the decade between these two works Kolbe had received the title of professor (1918) and found - together with Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck - admission to the Prussian Academy of the Arts (1919). In the 1920s he was undoubtedly one of the most important plastic artists in Germany, and so the great art collectors all over the world became aware of him. A copy later found its way into the legendary Nelson Rockefeller art collection. It was the model for our exclusive edition.
Original: Rockefeller Collection/The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Sculpture in fine bronze, patinated. Cast by hand in lost wax casting technique. The shape was taken directly from the original. Limited edition of 199 copies, individually numbered and signed, and provided with the foundry hallmark. Format 38 x 52.5 x 23 cm (H/W/D). Weight 11 kg. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.