ERNST SEGER (Neurode, 1868 - Berlin, 1939 )
"Woman gathering up her dress". ca. 1920
Art Deco sculpture, in alabaster. With marble base.
Signed on the base.
Size: 31 x 19 x 11 cm (figure); 6 x 18 x 11 cm (base).
Alabaster sculpture, representing a female figure dancing or picking up her dress, in a scene of great plasticity and movement. With veined marble base. Signed on the base.
Ernst Seger was a German sculptor and medallist. From 1884 he attended the sculpture class at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau with Robert Härtel and worked in the studio of Christian Behrens from 1886. From the late 1880s he received his first major commissions for monuments. After working in Auguste Rodin's studio in Paris in 1893 and 1894, he ran his own studio in Berlin. In 1895 he created a monument to Kaiser Wilhelm for Glatz. Around 1900 he became popular for his Art Nouveau sculptural works, especially female nudes.