Bernhard Hoetger's 'light and shadow' ceramic figure emerges at German sale
After training in Düsseldorf and Paris, where he had met Rodin and Maillol, both of whom had a major influence on his work, the German sculptor, painter and architect Bernhard Hoetger (1874-1949) joined the artists’ colony in Darmstadt in 1911.
During his four-year sojourn there, he created his most famous work of art, Licht- und Schattensei…