Bronze Horse Dated 1917, 53 Cm, Signed Karl Trumpf 1891/1959, Dressage

Period: dated 1917, Large bronze, in very good condition, on bronze base, lost wax bronze.
Signed: on the bronze base, referenced artist and side
Subject: Horse, dressage
Dimensions: height: 45 cm, length: 53 cm, depth: 20 cm. - 22 Kg.

Biography:
Karl TRUMPF 1891 / 1959
Karl Trumpf (born January 3, 1891 in Berlin, died March 13, 1959) was a German sculptor. At the age of eight months, Trumpf arrived in Gräfenhainichen to be taken in by a family of miners. In 1905 he began an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Gräfenhainichen and Wittenberg. In 1908, he traveled and worked as a stone sculptor.
After attending evening school, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin with Franz Metzner and from May 1914 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Erwin Kurz.
He also worked with Richard Engelmann in Weimar. Karl Trumpf became known for his work in the exhibitions of the Berlin Secession and the Berlin Academy of Arts.
He mainly draws bronze portraits of politicians from the Weimar Republic and figures from the history of trade unions.
Karl Trumpf was born in 1891 and was mainly creatively influenced by the 1900s and 1910s.
Source Bénézit and Pierre Kjellberg, Dictionary of sculptors: bronzes of the 19th century, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1997.

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