Sale: 424 / Modern Art, June 11./13. 2015 in Munich Lot 18

 

18
Georg Kolbe
Ohne Titel (Mann und Weib, miteinander ringend), 1913.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720
Sold:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720

(incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel (Mann und Weib, miteinander ringend). 1913.
Bronze with dark brown patina.
Not in Berger. With monogram on plinth as well as with foundry mark 'H. Noack Berlin' on verso. From a planned edition of 4 copies, of which 2 casts have been executed so far. 35.4 x 30 x 16 cm (13.9 x 11.8 x 6.2 in).
Posthumous cast from 2010/11, made by the foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin, after the original gypsum model from 1913, which is in possession of the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin. [JS].

Accompanied by an expertise for the gypsum model issued by Dr. Ursel Berger, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, from 19 February, 1979 (in copy) as well as with an expertise for the model and the bronze issued by Dr. Ursel Berger, Berlin, from September 2011.

PROVENANCE: (of the gypsum model)
Collection Alfred Dietrich (friend of the artist and executing mason, received directly from artist).
Private collection Hesse (descendant of previously mentioned).
Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin (received from previously mentioned).

In 1979 an original gypsum model by the sculptor Georg Kolbe, which had been unknown by then, was discovered in the estate of the mason Alfred Dietrich, who made stone sculptures for Kolbe towards the end of the 1910s. The model shows a variation of the theme 'Frauenraub' (Raptio) and was presumably made for the design of a fountain planned for the 'Werkbund' (German Association of Craftsmen) exhibition in Cologne in 1914. The pugnacious female figure that Kolbe created here calls reminiscence of both his 'Amazone', of which several versions were made as of 1912, as well as of the powerful physicality of the famous sculpture 'Tänzerin' (Dancer) from1911/12, today in possession of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The person depicted in all works presumably was Charlotte Kaprolat, later wife of the painter Max Pechstein, who sat model for the young Kolbe on several occasions at the beginning of the century.



18
Georg Kolbe
Ohne Titel (Mann und Weib, miteinander ringend), 1913.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720
Sold:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,720

(incl. surcharge)