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Beautiful Art Deco Nude Figure By Elly Strohbach For Royal Dux, Czechoslovakia, Circa 1935
Vienna, Austria
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Item details
Height
24.5 cm
Wear conditions
Good
Wear conditions
Excellent
Shows little to no signs of wear and tear.
Good
May show slight traces of use in keeping with age. Most vintage and antique items fit into this condition.
Average
Likely to show signs of some light scratching and ageing but still remains in a fair condition.
Apparent Wear and Tear
Visible signs of previous use including scratches, chips or stains.
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Description
Very nice nude by Elly Strohbach "The Bather" for Royal Dux. A young naked pretty lady starts drying herself with a patterned towel after a bath. The left arm is bent, in the right one she is holding the towel. Typical Art Deco figure on a blue and gold base.
After graduating from the State School of Ceramics in Teplice, Elly Strobach Königová (1908-2002) began working as a designer at the Royal Dux porcelain factory in the 1930s.
She was a respected designer in the 1930s and 1940s, and her designs for decorative and figurative porcelain in the Art Deco style were particularly successful. Elly Strobach was well known and respected in the art world for sophisticated dancers, ladies and nudes.
Eliška Kvasničková (her maiden name) did not have an easy life. She was first with the doctor MUDr. Strobach, who died of acute tuberculosis. Elly Strobachová married a second time and also took the name Königová. Until her retirement, she was subjected to the ideological dictates of the Cultural Revolution's evaluation committees, which defamed and disparaged her artistic achievements. For this reason, she went into exile in Germany with her sister and her husband in the second half of the 1960s. She died as Elly Strobach König near Munich on March 14, 2002, shortly after her 94th birthday.
Her works are becoming increasingly popular today and are highly valued by collectors, art lovers and lovers of the fine arts, which of course has an effect on the price development of her works.
In 1835 Eduard Eichler founded a porcelain factory in Duchcov (Dux), the Eichel pottery factory. 1898 Conversion and change of name to Duxer Porzellan-Manufaktur, AG. From 1900 it was called
the then Austrian porcelain manufacturer Royal Dux Bohemia and productivity increased enormously. This very successful era was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. At the beginning of the 20th century, Royal Dux was very successful thanks to the work of designer Alois Hampel. From the 1930s it was mainly the sculptures by Elly Strobach that were productive and profitable for the company.
In the 1950s Royal Dux experienced an upswing with artists such as Jaroslav Jezek and Jitka Forejtova, who caused a sensation with their modernist sculptures at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels.
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