Vienna Bronze Gallery presents:


A curious nude beauty peeping through the curtain of a little cabana signed ‘Nam Greb.’

We are glad being able to offer you one of the rare and highly collectible mechanical bronzes of this great workshop, an amusing piece. The figure is pictured in Christie’s catalog of their auction on May 11, 2011, estimated at Euros 2,000 – 2,400.

Two images are excerpts from the German Battenberg catalog about Vienna Bronzes.


One of the rare antique Vienna or Wiener Bronze cast in the traditional lost wax technique (cire perdue) by FRANZ XAVER BERGMANN, the renowned workshop which created great pieces with the highest quality level and the highest collectors and resale value!

With a fine untouched patina.

DIMENSIONS:	c. 5 1/8 “ (13 cm) tall
CONDITION:	Good. No restoration, no repairs, no touch ups! Please do not forget that you are buying a used item that always may show some traces of wear!
MARKED:	Bergmann logo B in the urn or amphora and signed Nam Greb

Franz Bergmann (1838 – 1894) was a professional chaser from Gablonz who came to Vienna and founded a small bronze factory in 1860. His son Franz Xaver Bergmann (1861 – 1936) inherited the Company and opened a new foundry in 1900.

From that time the Bergmann bronzes were marked with the “jar” mark and outstanding works were signed “Nam Greb” (Bergman spelled backwards). Many of the bronzes from the 1900s were still based on designs by Franz Bergmann the elder.