Lot description
Around 1920/30. Bronze, black patinated. Figure: H. 50 cm, marble base: H. 17 cm. Signed KAESBACH. Base min. chipped. Kaesbach took up a popular motif in art that goes back to ancient models and depicts the goddess Venus in the form of a young woman drying herself after bathing. - German sculptor, studied at the academies in Hanau, Paris and Brussels, in 1903 he moved into his own studio in Grunewald, Berlin. From 1911 he participated in the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions, from 1939-1943 he took part in the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich. He mainly created nudes, dancers and animals, large marble figures and grave monuments, but also antique nude motifs as small bronzes. Initially still oriented towards Art Nouveau, he soon turned more and more towards Naturalism. Lit.: Thieme/Becker