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Georg Kolbe

Georg Kolbe (1877 - 1947) was active/lived in Germany.  Georg Kolbe is known for Nude female sculpture.

The following biography, written by Dr. Ursel Berger, is from the website of the Georg-Kolbe Museum: http://www.georg-kolbe-museum.de/biography.htm

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 master-painter first wanted to become a painter.rather than a sculptor.  He studied painting and drawing from 1891 to 1898 in Dresden, Munich and in Paris at the private Academie Julian.  During this early period. Kolbe drew the attention of his contemporaries because of his symbolic compositions.  During his stay in Rome from 1898 to 1901, he began sculpting rather by   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6654 characters.]  Artist bio

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