Nude Sitting

About The Artist: Georg Kolbe

Georg Kolbe was one of the most successful German sculptors of the first half of the 20th century. As chief exponent of the idealistic nude he had a great impact on his generation. From the beginning the young artist's style differed from the commissioned traditional sculpture of the late 19th century, which, under Emperor Friedrich II, had led to a widely criticised boom of monuments. Born in Waldheim/Saxony, Kolbe, the son of an art-loving...