Wuppertal sculptors are also represented among the artistic positions gathered around the large table. The smallest figure, a 'standing figure', is by Ernst-Gerd Jentgens, who was born in Düsseldorf in 1931 but lived and worked in Wuppertal for many years. After training as a goldsmith and studying art history, education and sociology, he worked as an art teacher and lecturer. In his 40s he turned exclusively to art, working as a goldsmith, metal sculptor, graphic artist and painter. Two of Jentgens' bronzes can be seen as public art in Wuppertal-Barmen. This small standing figure, whose bronze has an almost golden or coppery colour, entered the Wuppertal collection in 1978 as a purchase from the artist. The standing woman looks diagonally upwards to the left. Her hips are bent. She was modelled on a dancer from the Pina Bausch Dance Theatre in Wuppertal.
Other Wuppertal works by Otto Geiger, born in Eisenach in 1903, include a small bronze figure of a man in prayer and a wooden figure of a woman undoing her hair. Geiger went to Wuppertal to study sculpture at the Kunstgewerbeschule, before attending the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. After spending several years in South America, he finally settled in Wuppertal. Here he worked as a sculptor and portraitist, producing mainly figurative works. His sculpture Haaraufbindendes Mädchen (1957), made of Chilean olive wood, stands on the threshold between figuration and abstraction. Especially when compared to Renée Sintenis' small reddish bronze sculpture of a girl untying her hair, created before 1925, the body and the movement of the rising arms in Jentgens' sculpture can be felt. Geiger was a member of the 'Ring bergischer Künstler'. Both Geiger and Ernst-Gerd Jentgens were members of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft. Both are among the lesser known positions in the sculpture collection.
