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Art
Deco bronze figurines are small-scale statues produced for
home decoration in the 1920s and 30s (and originally for sale in
many UK jewellers and department stores) that perfectly capture
the spirit of the age. This romanticised time of luxurious
transatlantic ocean liner palaces such as the SS Normandie and
RMS Queen Mary, cocktails and flappers, wild jazz music, Hollywood
and divine decadence was captured in bronze (with ivory)
and spelter sculptures by such famous sculptors as Demetre
Chiparus, Ferdinand Preiss, Josef Lorenzl and Claire Colinet
taking their inspiration from the dancers, cabaret performers,
movie stars and fashion in Hollywood, Paris and Berlin at that
time.
With their sculptures now being sold in
major auction houses throughout the world, and many collectors
of the style eager to own figures that appear to be "frozen in
time", there is no doubt that nearly one hundred years after
the artists designed these little works of art these exotic
ladies will continue strutting, posing and dancing their way
through the 21st Century and beyond!
Silent footage of Berlin nightlife from around 1930 can
be seen here.
Silent footage of Berlin nightlife from around 1930 can be seen here.
