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Georg Kolbe

Waldheim, Saxony 1877 – 1947 Berlin

”Tänzer Nijinsky”. 1913/19

Bronze with dark brown patina, mounted on stone base. Dimensions without base: 65 × 41 × 20 cm (25 ⅝ × 16 ⅛ × 7 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Georg Kolbe. ”Tänzer Nijinsky”. 1913/19.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 94,100

 

- 141,000

Sold for:

203,200 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2025

The Walter Bauer Collection, 27 November 2025

Information

Bronze with dark brown patina, mounted on stone base. Dimensions without base: 65 × 41 × 20 cm (25 ⅝ × 16 ⅛ × 7 ⅞ in.). Monogrammed on the plinth at the back on the left: GK. Georg Kolbe-Museum online catalogue raisonné W 19.008 (this cast not listed). One of circa 20 casts of the second version. Cast during the artist's lifetime.

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

Carl Georg Heise, Berlin / Walter Bauer, Fulda (acquired 1940 from the above-mentioned, since then in family estate)

Accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Ursel Berger, Berlin, dated 31 October 2025.

Arnold und Anneliese von Borsig (ed.): Privatkatalog der Sammlung Walter Bauer]. Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, [1941], unpaginated., ill. („Der Tänzer“, with differung dimensions) / Ursel Berger: Georg Kolbe. Leben und Werk, mit dem Katalog der Kolbe-Plastiken im Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, 1990, cat. no. 23

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