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Zach, Bruno (1891 – 1945)
Art Deco and art nouveau sculptor born in the Ukraine but moved to Austria as a young man where he studied at the Vienna academy. He worked from 1918 to 1935, mainly in bronze but also made chryselephantine pieces (bronze and ivory) and a few spelter pieces.
He devoted most of his talents to the exotic and erotic, although a few sporting figures and dancers were also produces. Some of his models were prostitutes, in whose company he apparently frequently spent some of his evenings. Rumour has it that he proposed to one of them and was refused.
Most of his subjects are female with a few dancing couples. He signed most of his pieces Bruno Zach or B. Zach but also used two pseudonyms – Pro Tuch or K. Salat. His erotic statues were usually scantily clad ladies in stockings, garters and high heels and he even created one of a female hugging a male penis known as the Hugger. Some even bordered on the sadomasochistic theme as shown in his most famous statue – the riding crop.
His bronze sculptures were generally fired and coated with chemical patinas in mid-brown colours but were sometimes cold painted or polychromed. He used ivory, sparingly, and it was generally very well carved. Zach’s work was edited by several firms, including Argentor-Werke (Vienna), Broma Companie, S. Altmann and Company, and Franz Bergmann. He died in Vienna in 1945.
Zelikson, Serge (b. 1890)
Born 1890 in Polotski, Russia. He won a scholarship to travel in 1912 and went to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under the guidance of Injalbert, Bouchard and Landowsky. He took French naturalisation in 1920. He specialised in genre figures and figural groups, busts and medals and bas-reliefs of contemporary personalities. He exhibited his works at Le Salon d’Automne, the Nationale and the Independants also at provincail gallerys around France. The Paris Municipal Museum displays his famous figure of a Volga Boatman.