A LIFESIZE GERMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ATHLETE, cast from a model by August Waterbeck, the young man shown naked and standing, his head raised to the right, a shepherd's staff held in his right hand and in the crook of his left arm, signed and dated AUG. WATERBECK.1910, early 20th Century

A LIFESIZE GERMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ATHLETE, cast from a model by August Waterbeck, the young man shown naked and standing, his head raised to the right, a shepherd's staff held in his right hand and in the crook of his left arm, signed and dated AUG. WATERBECK.1910, early 20th Century

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August Waterbeck was born in 1875 near Münster, but worked principally in Hannover. He had an eclectic training, both as a woodcarver in an ecclesiastic workshop, and also at the Vienna Academy working in stone and bronze. Waterbeck worked on several national commissions, and is best remebered for these monuments from the 1920's and 30's. He also executed, nevertheless, animal sculptures and, as in the present example, heroic studies of the male nude.