Lot 161: AN ART DECO IVORY FIGURE OF A CROUCHING NUDE BY LUDWIG WALTHER, 1920S

1920S

11cm. high by 9cm. wide

on an onyx base

LITERATURE

A similar figure by Preiss is illustrated in: Alberto Shayo, Ferdinand Preiss, Art Deco Sculpture, China, 2005, p. 93.

NOTE

Ludwig Walther was born in 1890 in Erbach where he also died in 1972. He trained under Carl Haebler in Baden-Baden and later under Ferdinand Preiss in Berlin, where he specialised in the production of dancers. Many of the ivory nudes from the Preiss-Kassler workshop formerly attributed to Preiss were designed by Walther.