Girl with the ball, Walter Schott, Scheibe-Alsbach, Germany, after 1905
Description
Hand-painted porcelain, partly gilded, signed.
Height: 28 cm
Walter Schott (1861 – 1938) was a German sculptor and art professor. His father, Eduard Schott, was a well-known metallurgist who was the manager and inspector at the smelters of Count Heinrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode. After completing his standard education, he studied in Hanover from 1880 to 1883, at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Fritz Schaper. After 1885, he worked as a free-lance sculptor in Berlin, creating statues in the prevailing Neo-Baroque style. Over the years, he became almost totally dependent on the Kaiser's patronage and found little work to do after World War I, a fate which befell many creative artists too closely associated with the Imperial government. In 1930, he wrote an autobiography, defending his position and assailing his critics.
Scheibe-Alsbach – the German factory of porcelain. Was founded in 1835 in Thuringia.
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