Lot 384 D

Georg Kolbe - Reichskanzler von Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg)

Auction 979 - overview Cologne
31.05.2011, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 3.388 € (incl. premium)
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Statuette, black cast iron. Height 31.3 cm. On cast-with, stepped base (2 x 9.2 x 8.3 cm). Monogrammed GK (joined) on back of upper plinth at left; with dated foundry annotation "geg. Lauchhammer 1917." at back of base at lower right and inscribed in front "v. Bethmann Hollweg."

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