An Allegoric Figure 'Sedina'
Ludwig Manzel (Kagendorf 1858 - Berlin 1936)
Lot-No. 649
Proceeds : 5.000 €
Around 1900. Bronze, brown patinated. Figure: H. 27 cm, base: H. 6,5 cm. Sign. L. Manzel fec., foundry mark: Akt. Ges. H Gladenbeck & Sohn. The female figure of 'Sedina', shouldering a sail and holding a ship's anchor, symbolises the city of Szczecin. As a large sculpture, she was part of the so-called Manzelbrunnen, a monumental fountain in Szczecin on the square in front of the New Town Hall, which was melted down for armaments purposes in 1942 - German sculptor, trained at the Berlin Academy of Art under Albert Wolff and Fritz Schaper, after a longer stay in Paris from 1889 in his own studio in Berlin, received numerous commissions in the public sphere through his friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm II. Lit.: Vollmer vol. 24
Ludwig Manzel: An Allegoric Figure 'Sedina'
Ludwig Manzel (Kagendorf 1858 - Berlin 1936)
An Allegoric Figure 'Sedina'
Lot-No. 649
Proceeds : 5.000 €
Around 1900. Bronze, brown patinated. Figure: H. 27 cm, base: H. 6,5 cm. Sign. L. Manzel fec., foundry mark: Akt. Ges. H Gladenbeck & Sohn. The female figure of 'Sedina', shouldering a sail and holding a ship's anchor, symbolises the city of Szczecin. As a large sculpture, she was part of the so-called Manzelbrunnen, a monumental fountain in Szczecin on the square in front of the New Town Hall, which was melted down for armaments purposes in 1942 - German sculptor, trained at the Berlin Academy of Art under Albert Wolff and Fritz Schaper, after a longer stay in Paris from 1889 in his own studio in Berlin, received numerous commissions in the public sphere through his friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm II. Lit.: Vollmer vol. 24
