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An Art Nouveau ivory nude with lizard by Johann Balthasar Trumpfheller, circa 1930
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Description
- An Art Nouveau ivory nude with lizard by Johann Balthasar Trumpfheller
lower back signed
- 14.5cm. high
the maiden stepping down from a rocky outcrop, on an ivory base
Catalogue Note
Trumpfheller was born in Erbach in 1876 abd died in Baden-Baden in 1961. Like many of his famous contemporaries he trained under Carl Haebler in Baden-Baden. His work distinguishes itself by high craftsmenship and elaborate detail. Other of his pieces can be found in the Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach.