Acknowledgements 9
Preface 11
Ferdinand Preiss: the Man 13
Childhood 13
Learning the Craft 15
A Partnership for Life 16
'Ivory and Art' 17
Family Life 20
The First World War 22
Coming of Age in the Golden Twenties 28
Behind the Scenes at Preiss and Kassler 32
The Gladenbeck Foundry 34
The Commercial Landscape 38
The British Connection 43
Trade Fa irs 48
Evolution of a Style 51
Influences and Inspiration 52
The Preiss Woman 54
Kiirperkulturr - the Cult of the Body 57
Sports 58
The 1936 Olympic Games 59
Heroines 60
Cinema 60
Life and Work under the Nazis 62
The Legacy 66
The Fire and the Flame 66
Chryselephantine Sculpture: A Historical Overview 68
From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Ivory as a Raw Material 70
Care and Conservation
Model Numbers and Variations 73
The Figures 74
Bibliography 188
Photographic credits 189
Index 190
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