About the Artwork
Kneeling Girl
1930
Georg Kolbe (Artist) German, 1877-1947 H. Noack (Foundry)
Bronze
12 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 6 inches (31.1 × 14.3 × 15.2 cm)
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.259
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Markings
Signed on bottom of left foot with monogram G K.
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On back of left foot: H. Noack/ Berlin/ Friedenau.
Provenance
1938 (?), (Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
by 1946, John S. Newberry Jr. (Romeo, Michigan, USA)
1965-present, bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Charlotte, North Carolina; St. Paul, Minnesota; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Poughkeepsie, New York; Wellesley, Massachusetts, SIX INTERPRETATIONS IN BRONZE, 1946- 1947.
Cranbrook Academy of Art Galleries, Bloomfield Hills, THE COLLECTION OF JOHN S. NEWBERRY, 1947.
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, WATERCOLORS, ETC. FROM COLLECTIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1933, 1958, no 36.
DIA, THE JOHN S. NEWBERRY COLLECTION, Oct 13-Nov 14, 1965, p 52 (ill).
DIA Statewide Services Traveling Exhibition, GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST SCULPTURE FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, May 27, 1986 - Mar 1, 1987.
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), GEORG KOLBE: SCULTPURE AND DRAWINGS, (14 February - 12 March 1938), nos. 18 or 19 (no ils, no dim)
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Georg Kolbe; H. Noack, Kneeling Girl, 1930, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.259.
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