Georg Kolbe
Pietà
1928/1929
bronze sculpture height 38,3 cm Gießerstempel, monogrammiert probably posthumous cast
A second, somewhat enlarged rendition, with lightly modified pose, of the "Pietá" from 1928. It was the basis for the life-size statue, sculpted 1929/1930. Cf. Berger 120 (first design) und 122 (life-size figure)
Catalogue Raisonné
Berger 121
Provenance
Private collection, Westphalia
Literature
Ludwig Justi, Georg Kolbe, Berlin 1931, p. 7
Exhibitions
Berlin 1930 (Galerie Alfred Flechtheim), Georg Kolbe; Berlin/Bremen 1997/1998 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Gerhard Marcks-Haus), Georg Kolbe 1877-1947, cat. nr. 62, p. 115 with ill.