German sculptor Milly Steger took her first drawing lessons in her boarding school in London. She then studied plastering and stonemasonry in Wuppertal at the School of Applied Arts, and then moved to Düsseldorf to receive private lessons, because it was forbidden for females to go to the Art Academy. Starting in 1910, she settled for several years in Hagen. After World War I, Steger moved to Berlin and became a member of the Berlin Secession. From 1929-42 she taught in a team of artists in Berlin, all of whom worked in the studio of Georg Kolbe, which was completely destroyed in 1943 by a bomb attack, and Steger lost many of her works. Some of them were labelled “degenerate” by the Nazis and confiscated. After World War II she again worked in Berlin in a new studio.The now lost 123 cm high bronze sculpture Mein Ball (My Ball) from 1932 could be the work submitted.
