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Georg Kolbe BIOGRAPHY
1877 Waldheim, Germany - 1947 Berlin, Germany. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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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.
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