A Small Tatooed Head I Essen Head
Rainer Kriester (Plauen 1935 - Vendone, Italien 2002)
Lot-No. 638
Proceeds : 2.400 €
1983. Bronze, brown-black patinated. H. 17,5 cm. Inside handwritten inscribed Für Gerd von Rainer 17.6.83, numbered copy 17/30 and stamped KRIESTER. - Expertise: Cat. rais. 238 - Provenance: Prtivate collection Hamburg - German painter and sculptor, studied at the Berlin Art Academy from 1961 and lived in Vendone, Liguria from 1982. His work focuses on abstracted heads, such as the 'Great White Head Sign' in the Chancellery in Berlin (1984-87), inn 1996/97 he created a series of 140 sculptures under the titles "Viaggio in Africa I" and "Viaggio in Africa II", in 1997/98 in New York the large bronze 'Segni solari'.
Rainer Kriester: A Small Tatooed Head I Essen Head
Rainer Kriester (Plauen 1935 - Vendone, Italien 2002)
A Small Tatooed Head I Essen Head
Lot-No. 638
Proceeds : 2.400 €
1983. Bronze, brown-black patinated. H. 17,5 cm. Inside handwritten inscribed Für Gerd von Rainer 17.6.83, numbered copy 17/30 and stamped KRIESTER. - Expertise: Cat. rais. 238 - Provenance: Prtivate collection Hamburg - German painter and sculptor, studied at the Berlin Art Academy from 1961 and lived in Vendone, Liguria from 1982. His work focuses on abstracted heads, such as the 'Great White Head Sign' in the Chancellery in Berlin (1984-87), inn 1996/97 he created a series of 140 sculptures under the titles "Viaggio in Africa I" and "Viaggio in Africa II", in 1997/98 in New York the large bronze 'Segni solari'.
