A Chryselephantine Figure 'Drinking Woman'
Victor Heinrich Seifert (Döbling bei Wien 1870 - Berlin 1953)
Lot-No. 238
Proceeds : 2.300 €
Around 1910. Bronze, gold patinated, Carved ivory head, forearms and hands, drinking bowl, feet. Figure: H. 21 cm, base: H. 8,5 cm. Sign. Victor Seifert, foundry stamp A.G. GLADENBECK BERLIN, No. D 6364. Finger of the left hand partially rep. Young woman in a flowing robe, drinking from a bowl. Very finely crafted and delicately carved ivory parts. - The Drinking Woman is one of Seifert's best-known works, famous versions as a fountain sculpture in Rostock and as a statuette in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts - Expertise: Marketing authorisation in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 and Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade in them available - German sculptor. Seifert attended schools in Vienna and Munich and studied at the Museum of Decorative Arts and at the Berlin Art Academy under Ernst Herter, Ludwig Manzel and Peter Breuer. After World War I he was one of the busiest sculptors in Germany. He created a large number of statues and war memorials.
Victor Heinrich Seifert: A Chryselephantine Figure 'Drinking Woman'
Victor Heinrich Seifert (Döbling bei Wien 1870 - Berlin 1953)
A Chryselephantine Figure 'Drinking Woman'
Lot-No. 238
Proceeds : 2.300 €
Around 1910. Bronze, gold patinated, Carved ivory head, forearms and hands, drinking bowl, feet. Figure: H. 21 cm, base: H. 8,5 cm. Sign. Victor Seifert, foundry stamp A.G. GLADENBECK BERLIN, No. D 6364. Finger of the left hand partially rep. Young woman in a flowing robe, drinking from a bowl. Very finely crafted and delicately carved ivory parts. - The Drinking Woman is one of Seifert's best-known works, famous versions as a fountain sculpture in Rostock and as a statuette in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts - Expertise: Marketing authorisation in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 and Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade in them available - German sculptor. Seifert attended schools in Vienna and Munich and studied at the Museum of Decorative Arts and at the Berlin Art Academy under Ernst Herter, Ludwig Manzel and Peter Breuer. After World War I he was one of the busiest sculptors in Germany. He created a large number of statues and war memorials.
