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Sculpture Dog Sichuan Pottery Han Dynasty Period China
Located in New York, NY
Sculpture Sichuan pottery walking Han dynasty period, China. A Han sculpture in the shape of a dog. Of the large number of figurines unearthed in burial sites in the city, pottery dogs are among the most unique. These marvelous animated tomb figurines...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Han Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Double Spouted Vase by Vittorio Cornacchia
By Arnaldo Sangiorgi and Vittorio Cornacchia
Located in New York, NY
Glazed ceramic. Figurative design with blue and red glazes. Produced together with Arnaldo Sangiorgi at Keramos Studio in Faenza, Italy. Artist signed on underside.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Carrara White Marble Sculpture of Seated Woman by R. Madonna
Located in New York, NY
Italian Carrara marble sculpture of a seated woman, signed R. Madonna, with later square shaped variegated green marble base.
Category
20th Century Italian Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large Silver Figurine Sculpture of a Spanish Cavalier
Located in New York, NY
Large figurine sculpture of a Spanish cavalier soldier finely sculpted from silver measuring 19 by 7 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Apparently unsigned.
Category
19th Century Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Collection of Six (6) Grand Tour Bronze Marble Busts of Roman Emperors
Located in New York, NY
Collection of six (6) antique (19th century) Grand Tour busts of Roman emperors in patinated bronze with gilt bronze mounts and white marble pedestals, each measuring from 8 to 8 1/4...
Category
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
2006 Xavier Mascaro Glass Leg Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Xavier Mascaro Glass Leg Sculpture by the spanish artist Xavier Mascaro. Made in 2006 by combining glass, iron and pewter materials, this sculpture is a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Brutalist Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Pewter
Formia 1980s Modern Italian Comic Ivory Glass Head Sculpture with Red Lips
By Formia Murano
Located in New York, NY
One 1980s, modernist dynamic, comic mouth blown head sculpture in colored Murano glass, in ivory milk white, the face with blue eyes and red lips. This production has been very limit...
Category
1980s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vally Wiethelthier, Drunken Sailor, Art Deco Art Ceramic Figurine, ca. 1925
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
This funny, humorous tabletop ceramic figurine depicts a drunken sailor lying on his back. Around his neck is a metal ring with an anchor on it.
MARKINGS
Signed on the left buttock: "Italy".
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 2.5 inches
Width: 2 inches
Depth: 3.5 inches
VALERIE “VALLY” WIESELTHIER (Austrian-American, 1895 – 1945) was an outstanding ceramic artist. She was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Wilhelm Wieselthier was a lawyer. Valluy attended theWiener Frauenacademie in Vienna from 1912 to 1914 and studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Rosalinda Rothhansl, Kolo Moser, Jodef Hoffmann and Michael Powolny from 1914 to 1920. In addition, she worked as an auxiliary nurse during the First World War.
From 1917 to 1922, she worked for the Wiener Werkstatte. From 1922 to 1927, she ran her own ceramic workshop in cooperation with the Augarten porcelain factory, which was newly founded in 1923, but also with other companies such as Friedrich Goldschider, Gmundner Keramik and Lobmeyr.
Her expressive and humorous porcelain figures attracted attention at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris in 1925 and are considered typical examples of the Art Deco style style. From 1928, the artist increasingly moved her center of life to the United States. She went to the International Exhibition of Ceramic Art in New York City in October 1928. In 1933, she moved to Chicago with Paul Lester Wiener...
Category
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
19th century Burmese Alabaster Buddhist Monk Statue
Located in New York, NY
A Burmese Alabaster sculpture of a Buddhist Monk devotee, Buddha. This posture is called Namaskara mudra, or Anjali mudra and is the gesture of greeting, prayer, adoration, and is al...
Category
19th Century Burmese Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Anthropomorphic Terracotta Sculpture, Italy, dated 1987
Located in New York, NY
Anthropomorphic terracotta sculpture with a bulbous body and long arms. The hands are interlocked and the wedge-shaped head has eyes, a nose and a mouth. The surface has different te...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Japanese Late Edo Period Life-Size Imperial Bunraku by Nagoshi Kenji, ca. 1850
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Late Edo Period Life-Size Imperial Bunraku
Head, Hands and Legs by Nagoshi Kenji, Ca. 1850
DIMENSIONS
Head: 13” High
Hands: 11” High
Legs: 9” High
...
Category
1850s Japanese Japonisme Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Vienna Polychrome Bronze Jester on Onyx Stand, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Vienna polychrome bronze jester on onyx stand, circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Rare and Important Cast Sculpture 1960s (Signed)
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
“Femme de Menage” aka “La Bonne”, a very rare and important large cast figural bronze sculpture attained via lost wax process, table in patinated and engraved bronze and pewter with ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Pewter
Bronze Busts of Richard Wagner and Wolfgang A. Mozart, by Carl Kauba 1865-1922
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed 'Geschutzt', 'C. Kauba', 'Vienna' and '4689'.
Category
1890s Austrian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Orientalist Bronze of Arab Soldier After Joaquin Angles (1859-1925)
Located in New York, NY
Orientalist patinated and partially gilt bronze sculpture of an Arabian soldier standing guard with rifle after Joaquin Angles (1859-1925). Signed in the cast.
Category
Early 20th Century French Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Polished Brass Sail Boat Sculpture by Curtis Jere, Signed, circa 1970
By Curtis Jeré
Located in New York, NY
Curtis Jere boat or ship sculpture, signed, circa 1970. Newly professionally re-plated in brass. Original C. Jere label still attached. This sculpture...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Metal
1850 Signed Pigalle Bronze Statue Marble Base 2 Sitting Putti
By Jean Marie Pigalle
Located in New York, NY
A rare brown patina bronze figural sculpture of two young putti sitting on a sheaf of wheat. Signed by Jean Marie Pigalle (1792-1857). Raised on rouge marble base, circa 1850. Please...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$5,525 Sale Price
35% Off
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne "La Famille" Sculpture Art Installation 1970s (Signed)
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
One-of-a-kind life size art installation, "La Famille", with cast and patinated bronze sculptures of father, mother and daughter holding a patinated and engraved bronze and pewter ta...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Pewter
Edgardo Simone, Accordion Player, Art Deco Silvered Plaster Sculpture, ca. 1925
By Edgardo Simone
Located in New York, NY
Edgardo Simone, (Italian/American, 1890-1948)
Classically trained in Italy at the Beaux Arts Academy in Rome from 1906 to 1913, Edgardo Simone became a famous sculptor in Italy and the United States using mediums of terracotta, ceramic, bronze, and plaster. He earned a Doctorate of Design and Sculpture at the Academy and then emigrated to the United States where he worked in New York, Chicago and southern California. His style was influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco and other modernist influences.
In Italy, he had received three times the Croix de Guerre and was decorated by King Victor Emmanuel II and Queen Margherita. Before moving to America, he had much recognition in Italy. He had created war and city monuments, and tombstones in twenty-six Italian cities. When he arrived in New York City, one of the newspapers carried a headline: "Italy's greatest Sculptor Arrives in New York."
In New York, Simone became prominent in society and did many portrait busts including such of Thomas Edison, John J. Pershing, Henry Ford and Louis Brandeis. Sally Rand, the famous fan dancer of Chicago's World's Fair in 1933-1934, sat as a model in his studio as did President Franklin Roosevelt and author Theodore...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Art Nouveau Bronze Female Bust by George van der Straeten (1856-1928)
By Georges Van der Straeten
Located in New York, NY
Large Art Nouveau period patinated bronze bust of a lovely female by George van der Straeten (1856-1928).
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne "Nude #1" Wall-Hanging Sculpture 1960s (Signed)
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
"Study of Nude #1", a rare figural wall sculpture incorporating a femaile nude motif in solid pewter by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, American 1960's (signed with original gallery label o...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pewter
Silvered and Enameled Bronze Bust of Florentine Princess in Renaissance Style
By Vincent Désiré Fauré de Broussé
Located in New York, NY
Silvered and Enameled Bronze Bust of Florentine Princess in Renaissance Style after the original model by Vincent Desire Faure de Brousse...
Category
Mid-20th Century Renaissance Revival Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Andrianna Shamaris Rare Ancient Wood Torso
By Andrianna Shamaris
Located in New York, NY
This impressive century year old rose wood with incredible patina and character has been hand carved whilst respecting the natural organic shape. Set on a minimalist black steel base...
Category
2010s Tribal Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Matthew Solomon, Floral Columnar Glazed Ceramic Vase, United States
By Matthew Solomon
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary glazed porcelain sculpture by Matthew Solomon. Unique piece, signed and dated.
Using fine porcelain and glazes he crafted himself, Matthew Solomon translated the unruly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Carrara Marble Sculpture on Pedestal
Located in New York, NY
Tall, Italian Carrara marble female sculpture on pedestal. Date and signed on the back of the sculpture. The sculpture also swivels. The bottom...
Category
1990s Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Granite
Italian Marble Sculpture of a Nymph by E. DeCori
Located in New York, NY
A fine Italian white marble sculpture of a Winged Nymph by E. DeCori
Artist: E. DeCori
Date: circa 19th century
Origin: Italian
Dimension: 23 1/2 in x 11 in x 14 in.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
1980s Italian Colorful Murano Glass Set 3 Ballet Dancers for Cosulich Interiors
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques, Formia Murano
Located in New York, NY
These captivating Murano glass sculptures, signed Formia Vetri di Murano Glass Made in Italy, depict a graceful trio of stylized ballerinas in mid-dance, capturing both movement and ...
Category
1980s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine
20th Century Stone Carving of a Hand
Located in New York, NY
Continental School, mid-20th century – Cupped Hand — Carved Limestone Sculpture
Skillfully hewn from a single block of pale, fine-grained limestone, this life-size hand rests palm-up...
Category
20th Century French Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Italian Bronze Sculpture of Woman Playing a Pianoforte, Signed Saverid Sortini
Located in New York, NY
Italian bronze sculpture of woman playing a pianoforte, signed Saverid Sortini (1860-1925).
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bespoke Italian Amethyst Amber Gold Murano Glass Mask Wall Art Sculpture
By Paolo Birello
Located in New York, NY
"For the man" Venetian Murano Glass 3D Modern Mask, in golden amber glass with 2 opposite sides in amethyst color intersecting at the top to highlight a small red accent on the foreh...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine
White Carrara marble sculpture of Hannah and Samuel by F. Andrei. Inv. E.
Located in New York, NY
Depicting Hannah with draping robes holding Samuel in her left arm and placing a donation in a trunk with an engraved Menorah to its front, signed 'F. Andrei. Inv. E. Scolp. Roma 186...
Category
1860s Italian Classical Roman Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Carl Kauba, Bookworm & Art Connoisseur, a Pair of Bronze Sculptures, circa 1910
By Carl Kauba
Located in New York, NY
Both sculptures are signed ‘C. Kauba’ on the plinth.
Dimensions: 9.75” high x 3.75” deep x 3.5” wide
Dark brown patina.
Original marble pedestals.
Carl Kauba (Austrian, 1886 – ...
Category
1910s Austrian Romantic Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bespoke Italian Amethyst Amber Gold Murano Glass Mask Wall Art Sculpture
By Paolo Birello
Located in New York, NY
"For the man" Venetian Murano glass 3D Modern Mask, in golden amber glass with 2 opposite sides in amethyst color intersecting at the top to highlight a small red accent on the foreh...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine
Sculpture 1969 Signed Austin Productions Figural Brutalist
By Austin Productions
Located in New York, NY
Signed Austin Productions dated 1969. Artist-signed SD. Figural sculpture of seated woman holding flower. Brutalist modernist design.
Measure: He...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Artisan Wall Sculpture Of An Ancient Greek Man in Pewter On Wood 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Artisan made face of an ancient Greek man with a laurel wreath molded in pewter and set on a walnut backing, American 1950's. This captivating work is beautifully made.
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pewter
A Pair of Japanese Edo Period Stone Female Buddha Sattva Sculptures, c. 1750
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of Japanese Mid Edo Period Carved Stone Sculptures of Female Buddha Sattva, ca. 1750
PERIOD
Mid Edo Period (1603-1868)
DIMENSIONS
Height: 10.5 ...
Category
1750s Japanese Japonisme Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Pair of Japanese Bronze Bookends, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Japanese Bronze Bookends, circa 1880
Category
1880s Japanese Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Wendy Hendelman Black Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2017
By Wendy Hendelman
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's black Alabaster Torso sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Monica Foglia Italian Modern Polished Gold & Textured Bronze Heart Sculpture
By Monica Foglia, Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
This contemporary Italian sculpture, a Work of Art by the woman artist Monica Foglia, represents a human heart sculpted in bronze. The 2 finishes, half in polished gold bronze and th...
Category
2010s Italian Organic Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Edo Period Dragon God Ningyô, Ca. 1820
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Edo Period Dragon God Ningyô, Ca. 1820
DIMENSIONS
Height: 26 inches over all
Minor wear in textiles.
Fine antique condition
ABOUT
Musha-Ningyô (warr...
Category
1820s Japanese Japonisme Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Asian Carved Wood Buddha Statue
Located in New York, NY
Asian carved wood Buddha sculpture.
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Framed Collection of Mesoamerican Pre-Classic Period Sculptures & Arrow Heads
Located in New York, NY
Incredible collection of pre-columbian clay sculptures / figures / statues / pottery, mounted and framed. The pieces date from the pre-classic (Formative) period of Meso-American cul...
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15th Century and Earlier North American Pre-Columbian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Precious Stone, Hardwood
Wendy Hendelman Brown Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2018
By Wendy Hendelman
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's Brown Alabaster Torso Sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Naomi Feinberg "Lithic" Sculpture in Green Italian Granite, 1970s
By Naomi Feinberg
Located in New York, NY
Hand carved sculpture “Lithic” in Green Italian granite on an ebonized wood base by Naomi Feinberg, American, 1970s.
Naomi Feinberg was a New York based sculptor who worked primar...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
American Art Deco Wrought Iron Sculpture of Nude Female, ca. 1920’s
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco
Nude Female
Wrought Iron Sculpture
ca. 1920’s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 13 inches
Width: 4 inches
Depth: 4 inches
ABOUT
Designed in...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
Italian Porcelain White Dolphin Group on Bronze Base, Ginori, Circa 1860
Located in New York, NY
Italian Porcelain white dolphin group on bronze base, Ginori, Circa 1860.
Category
1860s Italian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Cesar Ceribelli Patinated Bronze Bust of Cleopatra
Located in New York, NY
Fine quality patinated bronze bust of Cleopatra signed: ‘C. Ceribelli’
Artist: Cesar Ceribelli, (French, 1841-1918)
Date: 19th century
Dimension: ...
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19th Century French Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Contemporary Italian Paradox Resin Sculpture of Sumo Wrestler with Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
Italian Work of Art by Monica Foglia in resin lacquered with red color pigments. The Italian artist explores the theme of lightness going beyond the physicality constraints. The stil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Lacquer
Lifesaver Candy Sculpture by Daniel Meyer, Signed
By Daniel Meyer
Located in New York, NY
Signed, Lifesaver Candy Sculpture by Daniel Meyer. The sculpture is wood, resin and acrylic. Lifesaver is orange.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood
Terracotta Bulldog
Located in New York, NY
Large size Victorian English terracotta bulldog with clipped ears in a sitting position. In the typical brown ceramic glaze and with glass eyes and ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$6,700
Lovely Large Heavy New York Private Estate Collection Bronze Boy and Girl Statue
Located in New York, NY
An Exquisite and Beautiful Quality Bronze of a Young Girl and Boy Embracing and Holding each other. The boy holding a collection of Flowers in one arm and holding the girl in the ot...
Category
20th Century Unknown Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,000 Sale Price
81% Off
Rare Important Fine Art Deco Alabaster of Woman Holding Her Dress Emilio Fiaschi
By Emilio Fiaschi
Located in New York, NY
The Following Item is An Outstanding Fine Patinaed Beautiful Estate Alabaster Figure of a Beautiful Woman Holding Her Dress. Signed on Base " P. C. E. FIASCHI, Made in Italy". Magni...
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20th Century French Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
$3,300 Sale Price
40% Off
Bronze Sculpture of Maidens by Auguste Joseph Carrier
Located in New York, NY
Our wonderful patinated bronze figure of three neoclassical females and a joyful child is signed Carrier for Auguste Joseph Carrier (French, 1800–1875).
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Richard Hirsch White Marble Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture, 2006 - 2010
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch’s white marble mortar and glass pestle was made during 2006-2010. Its wheel thrown and hand built clay, black glaze, sculpted whit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Ernst Seger, David and Lion, German Art Deco Patinated Bronze Sculpture, c. 1920
By Ernst Seger
Located in New York, NY
Signed “E. Seger”.
Black patina.
Dimensions
Height: 8 inches (20cm)
Width: 7.5 inches (18.75cm)
Depth: 8.5 inches (21.25cm)
THE BIBLE STORY
Samuel 17:34-36
Originally, Saul would not allow David to fight Goliath (17:33). Saul’s reason was simply that Goliath would be stronger than David. David was young and he did not have the experience to fight such a capable enemy as Goliath. David was likely to die, and his death would benefit nobody.
Often people wrongly imagine that they are acting in faith (in other words, that they are trusting God). Really, they are acting in a foolish manner, as if the danger is not real. They are not trusting in God, but in their own thoughts, hopes and desires.
David’s reply to Saul shows us his attitudes. This reply explains clearly why David had offered to fight Goliath. In other words, it shows how David considered himself able to defeat Goliath.
Like many boys and young men in Israel, David had worked as a shepherd. That is, he looked after sheep. He was responsible to look after those sheep in every way. In particular, he had to protect them from wild animals.
Lions and bears are some of the fiercest large wild animals. They were common in Israel at the time of the Bible. They are much stronger than a man (see for example 1 Kings 13:24 and 2 Kings 2:24). Only the bravest and strongest men were able to kill a lion (Judges 14:5-6; 2 Samuel 23:20). However, David had killed both a lion and a bear. He had killed animals that were stronger than him.
David did not believe that the strongest man would win the fight. David had a close relationship with God; he was trusting God to rescue him (17:37). David was not pretending that there was no danger. However, God’s Holy Spirit was active in David’s life (16:13). By the power of his Holy Spirit, God had given David the faith (trust in God) to fight Goliath. Because David really was trusting God, there was no reason for him to be afraid of Goliath.
THE ARTIST
Ernst Seger (1865 1939), born in Neurode (Nowa Ruda, now Poland), studied sculpturing from 1884 at the Kunstschule in Breslau under Robert Härtel. From 1886 he worked in the Atelier of Christian Behrens, where he created the Eichendorff-Memorial for the Silezian City of Neisse. From 1893 to 1894 Seger stayed in Paris where he worked in the atelier of Auguste Rodin. However, Seger finally chose a ‘Jugenstill’ and a more ‘naturalistic’ or ‘Neuklassizismus’ style. His sculptures, modelled like the Greek antiques, were later greatly admired by the National Socialists.
At the end of 1894 Ernst Seger went back to Berlin, founded his own atelier and created the Kaiser Wilhelm I memorial for the Silesian City of Glatz. In 1897 Seger created the sculpture ‘Jugend’ (‘Youth’), which was displayed at the ‘Große Berliner Kunstausstellung’ in 1898, at the ‘Große Berliner Kunstausstellung’ in 1899, at the ‘Münchener Glaspalast Ausstellung’ in 1899 and at the ‘Münchener Glaspalast Ausstellung’ in 1908. As a sculptor Seger regarded this as his first relevant work, his breakthrough. A copy of the sculpture in bronze, 1.60 metres high, was placed in the ‘Scheitniger Park’ in Breslau (now Wroclaw). In 1898 Segers ‘Diana’, the Roman Goddess of the Hunt, the Moon and Childbirth, was unvealed in Park Szczytnicki, Breslau, Polen (earlier ‘Schneitniger Park’). Until 1945 the sculpture stayed in the Schneitniger Park, Breslau. This part of the park is still called ’Dianagarten’.
After the turn of the century the elegant female dancers and nudes by Seger gained great popularity. In 1905 Ernst Seger created -together with the sculptor Bernhard Sehring- the ‘Bismarck Brunnen’ (‘Bismarck Fountain’) in Breslau. This memorial-fountain (which still exists) represents the allegories ‘Kampf’ and ‘Sieg’ (‘Battle and Victory’). Seger’s ‘Verwundete Amazone’ (‘Wounded Amazon’), displayed at the Grosse Münchner Kunstausstellung in the Glaspalast in 1908, was placed in the garden of the ‘Kaufhauses Wertheim’ in Berlin. In the same year he was appointed as a professor. Seger’s marble sculpture ‘Kypris’, created in 1916, was placed in the Alten Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In 1925 the City of Berlin acquired his sculpture ‘Anbetung’ and placed it at the Johannaplatz. ‘Storchenbrunnen’ (‘Stork-fountain’), was placed in 1931 at the Adolf-Scheidt-Platz in Berlin. In 1935 the American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst bought Seger’s sleeping ‘Ganymede’.
During the Third Reich Ernst Seger was commissioned numerous Hitler busts...
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1920s German Art Deco Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique African Head Rest
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful museum quality, wooden head rest. Stunning patina on this rare piece of art from Sudan. Hand carved from a single block of wood by the Dinka tribe....
Category
Early 1900s African Tribal Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Reclaimed Wood
Stunning Nickeled Steel Clasped Hands Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Rare and unique clasped hands sculpture on a marble base. The hands are executed in nickel over steel and have the presence of a great sculpture and the ...
Category
1970s Unknown Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nickel, Steel
Ceramic Bulldog
By Mouzin Pottery, Frédéric Thurner
Located in New York, NY
Life-size Belgium ceramic bull dog in tan, brown and cream colors with blue eyes complimenting blue and gold collar with large gold hoop. Back of dog open for use as umbrella or stic...
Category
19th Century Belgian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$6,800
Thai Wood Flower Sculptures
Located in New York, NY
Thai Flower Sculptures, early 20th Century.
Hand-carved out of reclaimed teakwood and repurposed from wheels to flower sculptures, these pieces are ...
Category
1920s Thai Other Vintage Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Reclaimed Wood
$825 Sale Price
20% Off
White Marble Sculpture Statue of a Boy Holding a Nest
Located in New York, NY
Date: 19th century
Origin: Italian
Dimension: 32 in. x 15 in.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Manhattan Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
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Mercury God Hermes
Psyche And The Butterflies
Hermes Mercury Sculpture
Horseshoe Sculptures
Mac Sculpture
Medusa Bronze Sculpture
Paper Mache Figure
Rosin Murano Glass
Rossi Bronze
Italian Furniture Las Vegas
Mars And Minerva
Ming Sancai