Bronze sculpture “Crouching Japanese Woman” by Georg Kolbe, limited edition reduction

"Kolbe's sculpture of the 'Crouching Japanese Woman' demonstrates the artist's keen powers of observation and his ability to express inner peace and contemplation. The young Japanese woman's pose is borrowed from a popular Hellenistic image depicting the crouching Aphrodite of Doidalsas (3rd century BC). Kolbe transforms the intimate motif of the goddess kneeling in her bath into a delicate gesture of contemplative reassurance of individual existence." (Prof. Dr. Christoph Grunenberg, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen)