Else Bach / Karlsruhe, Art Deco Sculpture, Majolica Ceramic (white Crackle) Ca 1935

Important sculpture (82cm) of a rearing white horse made around 1935 in ceramic (crackle technique) by the "Staatliche Majolika-Manufaktur de Karlsruhe" for the animal sculptor Else Bach. Marked under the terrace 'Karlsruhe' and model number of the factory "4944". It is in perfect condition, no defects. Biography: Else Bach is a German sculptor born in 1899 in Heidelberg, died in 1951 in Pforzheim. Arriving in Pforzheim in her childhood, it was at the school of arts and crafts of this city that she received her first artistic training. She started as a painter, but her interest in plastic creation was awakened. Her main teacher was the sculptor Emil Salm of Pforzheim, with whom she received craft training in different sculpture techniques. Else Bach undertook study trips in Germany and abroad. Her destinations were often zoos in large cities, as animal representations made up a large part of her oeuvre. The "Bambi", a fawn she created in 1936 in clay and later used for the German Television and Media Award, is her best-known sculpture and the result of her intensive collaboration with the Staatliche Majolika-Manufaktur in Karlsruhe, for which she designed almost 50 animal figures (fawns, does, a group of horses and rider, foals, donkeys, goats, kids, ...). In 1939 she exhibited a group of donkeys at the Great German Art Exhibition.