Lot 196
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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.