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Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss
Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss

Dancer of the Roaring Twenties by Ferdinand Preiss

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Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (1882-1943), known as Ferdinand Preiss, is a German sculptor, one of the main sculptors of the Art Deco period. Born in Erbach, Hesse, he attended schools in Michelstadt and aspired to become an engineer. Both his parents died when he was only 15 years old, he became an apprentice with the ivory sculptor Philipp Willmann. In 1901, he went to Rome and Paris. He became a friend of Arthur Kassler in Baden-Baden, leading him to the founding of the Berlin-based company Preiss & Kassler. Originally, the company created small ivory sculptures depicting children and classically shaped statuettes, often carved from old ivory billiard balls. From 1910, the company specialized in limited edition Art Deco sculptures, mixing bronze painted with ivory on onyx and marble bases.

Reproduction in patinated bronze by hand.
Sculpture worked and cast in art foundry, made using the so-called lost wax method.

Dimensions:

Height: 37.5 cm.
Depth: 12.5 cm.
Width: 12.5 cm.
Weight: 2.7 kg.
Material: Bronze.
Artistic movements: Contemporary art.
Artist: Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (1882-1943).
Delivery: approximately 2 to 3 weeks.

 

Art Déco was a broad and heterogeneous style that encompassed all artistic disciplines. Art deco was a style of decoration that was especially popular in the 1930s where simple shapes and lines and strong colors were used. In reality the Art deco was a wide movement that flooded all the artistic disciplines leaving wonderful examples of architecture, interior design, furniture, jewelry, painting and graphic arts, binding, fashion, glass, ceramics.

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