Bronze Europe By Oskar Gladenbeek Germany

Superb small Europa bronze. It is typical of the 1910 period of the German school of sculpture. The Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck foundry opened in 1851[2] in Berlin, Germany, under the direction of its founder, Carl Gustav Hermann Gladenbeck.[3] It was one of the most important foundries in Germany, known for its high-quality bronze castings.[1] Some of the first bronze sculptures to come out of the foundry were marked "Gladenbeck", with later castings over the years being marked "Gladenbeck und Sohn", "Akt-Ges vH Gladenbeck", "Akt-Ges Gladenbeck Berlin" or "Aktien -Gesellschaft". Gladenbek Foundry cast many of the best-known bronze sculptures created by German artists in the mid-to-late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] In addition to meeting the generally modest casting needs of German sculptors,[1] the foundry was also capable of casting bronze statues on a large scale. In 1913, the Gladenbeck Foundry founded the monumental Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1910, Gladenbeck founded the Untermyer Fountain of the Three Dancing Girls by sculptor Walter Schott. The fountain is located in the Conservatory Garden, Central Park, New York. The sculpture – located on a limestone base – depicts three young women holding hands in a circle “whose dresses cling to their wet bodies as if they were perpetually in the spray of the fountain”. The fountain includes three jets, two on the sides of the oval basin and a larger one in the center of the sculpture.