Georg Kolbe
Reichskanzler von Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg)
1917
cast iron Höhe 31,3 cm (auf mitgegossenem zweifach gestuftem Sockel 2 x 9,2 x 8,3 cm) Giesserstempel "geg. Lauchhammer"
The artist donated the model to the Red Cross; the amount of edited casts unknown; according to the Kolbe Archive not more than approx. 5 casts documented today.
Certificate
We would like to thank the old traditional foundry 'Lauchhammer Kunstguß' in Lauchhammer for kind information.
We would like to thank Dr. Ursel Berger, Georg-Kolbe-Museum Berlin, for confirmatory information after examination; enclosed a copy of the catalogue raisonné excerpt on the figure, planned for the Georg Kolbe oeuvre catalogue which is in preparation.
Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland
Literature
Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe - Leben und Werk, Berlin 1990, see p. 46, 190, espec. p. 54 and 234