ID 963812
Lot 100 | Georg Kolbe
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
1877 Waldheim/Saxony - 1947 Berlin
Title: Porträt Benjamine Kolbe.
Date: 1915.
Technique: Bronze, red-brown patinated.
Measurement: 36,5 x 16 x 23cm.
Notation: Monogrammed on the right side edge: GK (in ligature).
Foundry Mark: Foundry mark verso at lower edge: H. NOACK BERLIN.
It is a lifetime casting made 1915. The bronze is unique. A revised version from 1929 is in the holdings of the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, and is listed there under number 124.
Provenance:
- Collection Oskar Schmitz, Dresden (directly from the artist)
- Private collection Dresden (by succession)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (by succession)
- One of Kolbe's most beautiful portrait busts of his beloved wife Benjamine
- Family owned since the beginning and offered for the first time on the art market
- The slight stylisation and cubic forms shows the expressionist influences of the time on Kolbe's work
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| Artist: | Georg Kolbe (1877 - 1947) |
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| Auction house category: | Modern sculptures |
| Artist: | Georg Kolbe (1877 - 1947) |
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| Auction house category: | Modern sculptures |
| Address of auction |
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