Victoria | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR55.333
People: Georg Kolbe, German (Waldheim, Germany 1877 - 1947 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Victoria
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Kneeling Girl, Kniende
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1923
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223849

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

31.6 x 30.5 x 9.1 cm (12 7/16 x 12 x 3 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: on proper left foot, in artist's hand: GK II

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [E. Weyhe, New York, sold); to Jane K. Ransohoff (? - 1955) gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. J. Louis Ransohoff
Copyright: © Georg Kolbe / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Accession Year: 1955
Object Number: BR55.333
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: reddish-brown patina

Publication History

Ursel Berger, Georg Kolbe, Leben und Werk: mit dem Katalog der Kolbe-Plastiken im Georg-Kolbe-Museum (1990), cat. no. 60

Exhibition History

19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982

Verification Level

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BR55.333: Victoria