VERY RARE AND INTERESTING ART DÉCO SCULPTURE "FAMILY OF BEAR - Lot 226

VERY RARE AND INTERESTING ART DÉCO SCULPTURE "FAMILY OF BEARS" by Hermann GEIBEL (1889-1972) Bronze with brown patina, signed GEIBEL on the side of the base Circa 1920 24 x 34 cm The German sculptor studied at the Academy of Arts and drawing at Modellierklasse. He trained as a sculptor in Munich with Erwin Kunz and Gustav Britsch. He was a member of the German Artists' Association (banned from 1936), then a member of the artistic council of the Darmstadt artists' community. He took part in the major exhibition at the House of German Art in Munich in 1939 with the bronze work "Head of a Young East Frisian Cow" and a moose. In 1954, Geibel retired and continued to live in Darmstadt as a sculptor. Portraits and depictions of animals predominate in his artistic work. His best-known work in Darmstadt is probably the unicorn fountain erected in Kirchstrasse in 1955.