A bronze fountain sculpture by German sculptor Georg Kolbe sold for €4 million (nearly €5 million including fees) at Villa Grisebach auction house in Berlin-Charlottenburg, far exceeding its estimated value of €1.5 million and setting a world record for the artist. The 1922 work, depicting a weightless female dancer atop a limestone plinth, had only recently been restituted to the heirs of Jenny and Heinrich Stahl, a Jewish couple who commissioned it for their Berlin villa and were forced to sell their property by the Nazis in 1941 — Heinrich was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Analysts suggest the sculpture's turbulent history, which also includes a controversial depiction of crouching African figures on its base modelled on a Somali man brought to Germany as part of a colonial-era human exhibition, added to its extraordinary auction value.