Ernst Yelin. (1900 Stuttgart - 1991 ibid.) Pair of children Bronze, dark brown patina. Ligature monogram "EY", stamp of the Strassacker art foundry, Süßen. Group of nude figures. A kneeling boy and a crouching girl with a ponytail on an irregular, oval plinth, their heads nestled together in close intimacy. Probably modelled in the 1950s by the sculptor, who came from a family of artists in Stuttgart - his father was the church painter Rudolf Yelin the Elder (1864 - 1940), his younger brother the glass painter Rudolf Yelin the Younger (1902 - 1991). Ernst Yelin himself attended the Stuttgart School of Arts and Crafts and from 1922 to 1927 the Stuttgart Academy of Art under Ludwig Habich. As early as 1926, he created sculptures for the restoration of the Gothic St Nicholas Chapel in Calw; after graduating from the academy, Yelin, like many other sculptors of the time, created memorials and reliefs to the fallen as a result of the two world wars, as well as numerous fountains and sculptures for public spaces. In addition to such larger works, Yelin also worked on female figures, nudes and small erotic sculptures. H. 54 cm. Dark brown patinated bronze. Monogrammed, foundry stamp by Strassacker, Süßen.