Sphinx
Stephan Balkenhol (Fritzlar 1957)
Lot-No. 644
Starting Bid: 11.000 €
2014. Bronze, patinated and painted. H. 53,5 x 28 x 45 cm, plinth: H. 0,8 x 48,5 x 32 cm. Signed on the underside. St. Balkenhol, numbered copy12/30. The artist is considered a pioneer in contemporary figurative sculpture. With his depiction of the sphinx, he takes up a popular artistic motif and plays with gender roles: Balkenhol shows the androgynous hybrid creature of antiquity, masculine for the Egyptians and feminine for the Greeks, standing with a male human head, raised wings, scaled body and curly tail - Provenance: Private property, Hesse - Balkenhol is one of the most important and popular sculptors of the present, 1976-1982 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Ulrich Rückriem, then he was a teacher at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, and taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe until 2023. The human being is at the center of his work; roughly worked and colorfully painted wooden sculptures are characteristic of his work: 'My sculptures do not tell stories. Something mysterious is hidden in them. It is not my task to reveal it, but that of the viewer to discover it' (Balkenhol). For the public space B. created numerous works at home and abroad. Mus.: Basel (Kunstmuseum); Frankfurt (Museum für Moderne Kunst); Köln (Museum Ludwig) u.v.a.
Stephan Balkenhol: Sphinx
Stephan Balkenhol (Fritzlar 1957)
Sphinx
Lot-No. 644
Starting Bid: 11.000 €
2014. Bronze, patinated and painted. H. 53,5 x 28 x 45 cm, plinth: H. 0,8 x 48,5 x 32 cm. Signed on the underside. St. Balkenhol, numbered copy12/30. The artist is considered a pioneer in contemporary figurative sculpture. With his depiction of the sphinx, he takes up a popular artistic motif and plays with gender roles: Balkenhol shows the androgynous hybrid creature of antiquity, masculine for the Egyptians and feminine for the Greeks, standing with a male human head, raised wings, scaled body and curly tail - Provenance: Private property, Hesse - Balkenhol is one of the most important and popular sculptors of the present, 1976-1982 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Ulrich Rückriem, then he was a teacher at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, and taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe until 2023. The human being is at the center of his work; roughly worked and colorfully painted wooden sculptures are characteristic of his work: 'My sculptures do not tell stories. Something mysterious is hidden in them. It is not my task to reveal it, but that of the viewer to discover it' (Balkenhol). For the public space B. created numerous works at home and abroad. Mus.: Basel (Kunstmuseum); Frankfurt (Museum für Moderne Kunst); Köln (Museum Ludwig) u.v.a.
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