Fritz Klimsch was a German sculptor born in Frankfurt in 1870. He studied at the Academy of Berlin under Fritz Schaper and became a co-founder of the Berlin Secession in 1898. Klimsch received a professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Charlottenburg in 1921 and settled in Saig near Freiburg in 1945. His artistic style was strongly influenced by his stays in Italy and Greece, and his extensive oeuvre contains monuments, portraits, and single sculptures. Klimsch's main topic of work was the ideal female body shape, as seen in his sculptures 'Kauernde' (1913), 'Badende' (1918), and 'Versonnene' (1923). He passed away in Freiburg in 1960. Sources: H. Braun: Eine Dokumentation, Köln, 1991....