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Georg Kolbe:
Sculpture "Crouching Japanese Woman", reduction in bronze
Georg Kolbe:
Sculpture "Crouching Japanese Woman", reduction in bronze

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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | numbered | signature | foundry hallmark | certificate | bronze | patinated | reduction | size 26 x 13 x 12 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 3.8 kg

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Sculpture "Crouching Japanese Woman", reduction in bronze
Georg Kolbe: Sculpture "Crouching Japanese Woman", reduct...

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Sculpture "Crouching Japanese Woman", reduction in bronze

Grace and naturalness: Georg Kolbe's "Crouching Japanese Woman". ars mundi Exclusive Edition, published in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bremen.

The "Japanese Woman" - a dancer and daughter of a woman from Berlin and a Japanese man sat for Kolbe - a young, self-confident woman in a completely unacademically executed naturalism.

Sculpture in fine bronze, patinated. Cast by hand using the Lost-Wax-Process. Directly moulded from the original and reduced in size (reduction). Limited edition of 980 copies, individually numbered and with the signature taken from the original as well as the foundry hallmark. ars mundi Exclusive Edition, published in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bremen. With numbered certificate of authenticity and limitation. Size 26 x 13 x 12 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 3.8 kg.

"Kolbe's sculpture of the 'Crouching Japanese Woman' demonstrates the artist's great powers of observation and his ability to express an inner calm and contemplation. The posture of the young Japanese woman is borrowed from a popular Hellenistic image depicting the crouching Aphrodite of Doidalsas (3rd century BC). Kolbe transforms the intimate motif of the goddess kneeling in the bath into a delicate gesture of submerged assurance of individual existence." (Prof. Dr Christoph Grunenberg, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen)

Portrait of the artist Georg Kolbe

About Georg Kolbe

1877-1947

It was only during a stay in Rome from 1898 to 1901 that Georg Kolbe began to engage with sculpture. The artist, who was born in Waldheim, Germany, in 1877, had travelled to Rome as an already trained painter and graphic artist who had studied in Dresden, Munich and Paris in the previous seven years and already had some initial successes. As with many artists of his generation, Rodin's work in Paris had made a deep impression on him, and since the sculptor Louis Tuallion offered and provided him with technical support during his first attempts in Rome, he quickly found his way into sculptural work. It was not until 1904, in Berlin, that he decided to concentrate entirely on the art of sculpture. Kolbe quickly gained recognition: he became a member of the Berlin Secession and Paul Cassirer, the city's most important art dealer, soon represented him.

With his "Dancer" (1910) he finally had his breakthrough. He joined the ranks of the most important German sculptors of his time. The "Dancer" is still one of his most famous works today and is said to have become an idol with its "modern" hairstyle and its self-forgetful posture reminiscent of the highly topical expressive dance of the time, to which the art-interested youth made a veritable pilgrimage.

The nude figure continued to be at the centre of his work, often linked with the motif of dance until the 1920s. Kolbe's works after World War I bear witness to his involvement with Expressionism, later turning towards the classical monumental. When Kolbe died in 1947, he left behind a body of work that can be found in renowned collections all over the world.

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