Georg Kolbe (1877 Waldheim - 1947 Berlin) after "Klage" (also titled "Klagende"). Original title Bronze, brown patina, 1921/1978, later, posthumous cast from 1978, in an edition commissioned by the Rockefeller family, probably only executed in a low, single-digit edition. Monogrammed under the right foot; Kolbe, who achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1912 with his "Dancer" in the Berlin Secession, later acquired by the Nationalgalerie, was accepted as a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1919 and served as president of the Freie Secession Berlin from 1919-1921. The present nude figure of a kneeling young woman with arms outstretched and head bowed, originally created by Kolbe in 1921, is one of the most important and expressive sculptures from this expressionist period in Kolbe's oeuvre. Only a small edition of 12 or 13 casts was created in 1921/22 (in addition to the Nationalgalerie, examples can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others). In 1921 Kolbe showed "Klage" for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Galerie Paul Cassirer in Berlin, and subsequently in many exhibitions, including in 1924 at the Akademie der Künste and in 1931 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. H. 39 cm; W. 54 cm. The Georg Kolbe-Museum in Berlin lists the "Klage" under the Wvz. no. W 21.005. Lit. in selection: W. R. Valentiner "Georg Kolbe. Plastik und Zeichnung", Munich 1922, pp. 48, 50, ill. 48-49; G. Kolbe: "Begleit-Wort", in "Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration", vol. 53 (1923/24), pp. 194-198, ill. p. 198); L. Justi: "Georg Kolbe", Berlin, 1931, pp. 8, 15, ill. 10; R. G. Binding: "Vom Leben der Plastik. Inhalt und Schönheit des Werkes von Georg Kolbe", Berlin 1933, ill. p. 27. After Georg Kolbe Kolbe (1877 - 1947), 1921/1978. Brown patinated bronze. Monogrammed. Later posthumous cast from 1978 from a small edition commissioned by the Rockefeller family. Monogrammed.