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Leo Smigay


Pietà

PIETÀ
Bronze
8" x 7½"

Leo Smigay was born 1900 in Choyno/Germany. After his apprenticeship in sulpture he worked till 1920 as a miner in the northern part of Germany.1920/21 he attended an privat art school in Frankfurt a. M./Germany.

During his stays in North Africa, Asia Minor and Asia Central in the years 1921-1924 he developed and refined his typical style of art in sculptures.

Since 1928 he worked as an free-lance artist in Nürnberg/Germany and founded among others the noted and celebrated group of artists "Der Kreis". Leo Smigay died 1970 in Nürnberg/Germany.

Dancer

ACTRESS
Bronze
15 "
Tripod Mourner, 1969

COMPOSITION
BRONZE
17"


ABSTRACT FIGURE, 1969
BRONZE
19"


Thinker (Star Gazer), 1954 Round Forms

THINKER (STAR GAZER), 1954
Bronze
8"


ROUND FORMS
Bronze
12"


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