Auctions → 26 September 2020: Art → Art → Karl Opfermann: A Standing Female Nude
Around 1920. Fullround carved wood without polychromy. Slim female nude the hands placed behind her head. Characteristic detailed cut marks are spanning the figure with a delicate network and stress the sensous charisma of the nude. Lateral monogr. 'KO'. H. 63 cm. - Sculptor and graphic artist, after trained as ornament creator he studied in Hamburg with R. Luksch, 1919 he joined the Berlin 'Novembergruppe' and the Hamburger Sezession. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Schleswig. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump and Exh. cat.: Die Hamburgische Sezession 1919-1933, Fischerhude 2003, p. 130f.