Solo Antiques has dated this piece to the 1930s.
Very finely cast and well modelled the figure stands on a white marble rectangular base. Signed in the bronze Prof Poertzel. German c 1930. A beautiful example of Art Deco bronze sculpture
Professor Hermann Hugo Otto Poertzel (Poertzl) 1876 - 1963.
The son of a porcelain designer and decorator and born in Scheibe Germany, he served as an apprentice at the A. W. Fr. Kister porcelain factory and in 1893 began a three years course of studies at the Sonneberg Technischen Akademie für Porzellan working under Reinhard Möller. From 1900 he worked independently in Coberg and moved to Munich in 1908 starting his own workshop. He took part in many International exhibitions such as the 1904 St Louis World's Fair and the 1910 Brussels International Art Exhibition.
He is most well known for his beautiful Art Deco bronzes (often with carved ivory) depicting dancers, cabaret and film stars as well as fashionable young women with his bronzes being cast first by Rosenthal und Maeder and then later Preiss & Kassler in Berlin (where he shared a studio with Ferdinand Preiss).
The honorary title of Professor was bestowed on him by the German state.
Excellent original condition
Approx height 34 cm including the marble base
Solo Antiques has dated this piece to the 1930s.
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Art Deco Bronze Figurine Otto Poertzel
