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Georg Kolbe

Waldheim, Saxony 1877 – 1947 Berlin

”Totentanz”. 1923

Bronze with black patina. 78,5 × 30 × 22 cm (30 ⅞ × 11 ¾ × 8 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Georg Kolbe. ”Totentanz”. 1923.

Estimate:

EUR 90,000

 

- 120,000

USD 101,100

 

- 135,000

Sold for:

279,400 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 05.06.2025

Information

Bronze with black patina. 78,5 × 30 × 22 cm (30 ⅞ × 11 ¾ × 8 ⅝ in.). Monogrammed on the reverse on the plinth: GK. There too the foundry mark: H. NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU. Catalogue raisonné: Georg Kolbe-Museum W 23.016 (online catalogue raisonné). According to a confirmation by the artist dated 26.2.1933 one of 5 lifetime casts.

We would like to thank Dr. Ursel Berger, Berlin, for kindly providing additional information. .

Private Collection, New York / Private Collection, Berlin (acquired 1997 at Grisebach, Berlin)

Presumably Georg Kolbe. Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1933, cat. no. 14

Ludwig Justi: Georg Kolbe. Junge Kunst, Bd. LX. Berlin, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1931, p. 8 / Auction 59: Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Villa Grisebach, 28.11.1997, cat. no. 28, w. ill. / exh. cat. Georg Kolbe und der Tanz. Berlin, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, and Neu-Ulm, Edwin Scharff Museum am Petrusplatz, 2003. Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum, [2003], p. 67

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