Kneeling Girl

1930

Georg Kolbe, Artist H. Noack, Foundry

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About the Artwork

Title Kneeling Girl

Artwork Date 1930

Makers Georg Kolbe (Artist) German, 1877-1947 H. Noack (Foundry)

Medium Bronze

Dimensions 12 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 6 inches (31.1 × 14.3 × 15.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of John S. Newberry

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 65.259

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Signed Signed on bottom of left foot with monogram G K.

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Marks 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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Published References

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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