Ernst Seger, Jugend

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Description

‘Jugend’ (‘Youth’)
Biography: Ernst Seger

Life-size bronze.
Height: 150 cm.
Signed 1921.
Cast by Gladenbeck GmbH.

A cast of ‘Jugend’ by Seger was displayed at the ‘Münchener Kunstausstellung 1925’ in the Glaspalast.
The city of Nuremberg placed a life-size cast of ‘Jugend’ in one of there public parks (lost).
A second cast was bought by the Krupp-family and placed in Villa Hügel (lost since 1953).
A third cast was bough by industrialist Carl Duisberg; still located in the Carl Duisberg park in Leverkussen.

‘Jugend’ by Seger, depicted on a ‘FGW Berlin’ Postcard, nr. 296
The Fotografischer Großvertrieb Wiesental (‘FGW’), was a sales cooperation or a distribution platform through which F.G. Zeitz’s postcard publisher delivered its genuine photo cards While F.G. Zeitz took the photos and produced the cards in Berlin (later in Königssee/Oberbayern), the large-scale photographic distributor Wiesental managed the logistics and mass distribution. On many historical postcards from the 1930s to the 1960s, ‘FGW’ is printed in a curved font or in combination with a serial number.

Another cast of ‘Jugend’ by Seger, bronze, life-size, 1921. Located in the Carl-Duisberg-Park in Leverkussen.
The Carl-Duisberg-Park in Leverkusen, created at the beginning of the 20th century, is named after Friedrich Carl Duisberg (1861 – 1935), a German chemist, industrialist and co-founder of I.G. Farben. The park features include the tomb of Carl Duisberg and his wife Johanne in the form of a Temple of Flora, designed by Fritz Klimsch and the Caritas Fountain by Hugo Lederer from 1923.
 

Exhibition cataloque of the Glaspalast Ausstellung 1925.

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