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Czech-born Metzner was one of Vienna's significant exponents of Art Nouveau at the beginning of the 20th century and also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His most significant works are connected mostly with architecture. Among other things, he worked on the decoration of the Stoclet Palace in Brussels. This Madonna is one of the author's later works. From the important Prague collection of Bohuslav Dušek. Published in GAPS IN HISTORY 1890-1938, The Polemical Spirit of Central Europe - Germans, Jews, Czech, Prague 1994, pg 50. A terracotta version published in Franz Metzner Ein Bildhauer der Jahrhundertwende in Berlin-Wien-Prag-Leipzig. München, 1977, pg 95, image 52. Carrara marble, unsigned.