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Lot description
Bronze, patinated, signed E.M. on the plinth. Geyger (Fec."fecit"), with foundry stamp Akt. Ges. Gladenbeck and son Berlin-Friedrichshagen, German sculptor, medalist and etcher born 1861 in Rixdorf - 1941 in Marignolle near Florence, studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts 1878 to 1883, where he was under the tutelage of Paul MEYERHEIM (1842-1915), a renowned professor of animal painting, Geyger is considered a representative of the Berlin school of sculpture; his works are represented in important collections - including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Carnegie Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, his best-known work is the fully sculptural depiction of a male archer in a tense pose, with a focused gaze and , design around 1895, after the large original from 1902 from the Sicilian Garden Sanssouci / Potsdam, Further copies were placed on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden, in front of the Hanover town hall and at the Østerbro Stadium in Copenhagen, H 83 cm (with arch 105 cm) x W 69.5 cm x D 25 cm, weight approx. 19.2 kg, crack on the arm , arrow slightly crooked