A Towel Girl
Fritz Cremer (Arnsberg 1906 - Berlin 1993)
Lot-No. 591
Proceeds : 8.200 €
After 1955. Bronze, patinated. H. 60 cm. Monogrammed FC on the plinth, foundry stamp on the underside: Seiler, numbered copy 1/6, adhesive label of the catalogue raisonné no. P 92-02 (P 169). Standing Female Nude of a Girl Drying Herself - Literature: Cat. rais.: Schwind, fig. p. 87 - German sculptor, grafic artist and drawer. After training as a stone sculptor in Essen Cremer became a master pupil of Wilhelm Gerstel at the Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1946 he was named Professor at the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, 1950 move to the GDR, where he served as Vice President at the Academy of Arts between 1974 and 1983. His oeuvre contains public monuments, pairs of lovers and female nudes. However, he became famous primarily for his numerous lithografies, drawings and busts of Bertolt Brecht. Mus.: Berlin, Berlinische Galerie; Chemnitz, Staatl. Kunstsammlungen; Dresden, Albertinum u.v.a. Lit.: AKL vol. 22, starting on page 225; Galerie Schwind. Fritz Cremer (1906-1993). Plastiken und Zeichnungen. Werkschau. Leipzig, 2018
Fritz Cremer: A Towel Girl
Fritz Cremer (Arnsberg 1906 - Berlin 1993)
A Towel Girl
Lot-No. 591
Proceeds : 8.200 €
After 1955. Bronze, patinated. H. 60 cm. Monogrammed FC on the plinth, foundry stamp on the underside: Seiler, numbered copy 1/6, adhesive label of the catalogue raisonné no. P 92-02 (P 169). Standing Female Nude of a Girl Drying Herself - Literature: Cat. rais.: Schwind, fig. p. 87 - German sculptor, grafic artist and drawer. After training as a stone sculptor in Essen Cremer became a master pupil of Wilhelm Gerstel at the Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1946 he was named Professor at the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, 1950 move to the GDR, where he served as Vice President at the Academy of Arts between 1974 and 1983. His oeuvre contains public monuments, pairs of lovers and female nudes. However, he became famous primarily for his numerous lithografies, drawings and busts of Bertolt Brecht. Mus.: Berlin, Berlinische Galerie; Chemnitz, Staatl. Kunstsammlungen; Dresden, Albertinum u.v.a. Lit.: AKL vol. 22, starting on page 225; Galerie Schwind. Fritz Cremer (1906-1993). Plastiken und Zeichnungen. Werkschau. Leipzig, 2018
