A Grieving Woman
Lore Friedrich-Gronau (Görlitz 1908 - Münsterschwarzach 2002)
Lot-No. 549
Proceeds : 1.000 €
Around 1940. Cast zink with brown patina. H. 22,5 cm. Monogr. L.F.G. Seated female nude in a mourning pose, bent forwards, her head resting on her left knee with her arms wrapped around it - Provenance: Private collection Southern Germany - German sculptor and illustrator, trained at the Prussian Academy of Arts and was a master student of Fritz Klimsch. She became known above all for her numerous designs for the Rosenthal porcelain manufactory, for which she worked as a freelancer from 1939 to 1961. After the destruction of her Berlin studio in 1943, she first lived in Bad Kissingen and later in the Benedictine Abbey of Münsterschwarzach, where she also had her studio.
Lore Friedrich-Gronau: A Grieving Woman
Lore Friedrich-Gronau (Görlitz 1908 - Münsterschwarzach 2002)
A Grieving Woman
Lot-No. 549
Proceeds : 1.000 €
Around 1940. Cast zink with brown patina. H. 22,5 cm. Monogr. L.F.G. Seated female nude in a mourning pose, bent forwards, her head resting on her left knee with her arms wrapped around it - Provenance: Private collection Southern Germany - German sculptor and illustrator, trained at the Prussian Academy of Arts and was a master student of Fritz Klimsch. She became known above all for her numerous designs for the Rosenthal porcelain manufactory, for which she worked as a freelancer from 1939 to 1961. After the destruction of her Berlin studio in 1943, she first lived in Bad Kissingen and later in the Benedictine Abbey of Münsterschwarzach, where she also had her studio.
