A Sculpture 'Modell Heegbarg, Komposition Kugelraum'
Jörn Pfab (Hamburg 1925 - Hamburg 1986)
Lot-No. 332
Proceeds : 2.300 €
1973. Chrome-nickel-molybdenum-steel, welded on an oxidized iron plinth. Ligated monogr. to the top side of the plinth: 'JP'. H. 29,5 cm, w. 34 cm (sculpture), h. 108 cm (black lacquered stele). - From a private garden in Hamburg. - Literature: Cat. rais. Gädecke/Pfab no. 151. - Sculptor in Hamburg and leading representative of the steel plastic in Germany. After a training as stonemason, Pfab studied at the HfBK since 1946 in the class of Edwin Scharff. First he executed his works in bronze, as from 1961 in Chrome-Nickel-Molybdenum-Steel and therefore he had to learn the technology of welding. The most important for him was the monumental sculpture defined by prismatic, cubic and spheric structures. His large oeuvre contains not only numerous works for the Public Space but also small-sized sculptures as well as design objects. Mus.: Schleswig (SHLM), Hamburg (Kunsthalle). Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, J.P. - Das Lebenswerk, WVZ der Skulpturen, Objekte und Druckgrafik, bearb. T. Gädeke und Fotini Pfab, Kat. Schleswig 1989.
Jörn Pfab: A Sculpture 'Modell Heegbarg, Komposition Kugelraum'
Jörn Pfab (Hamburg 1925 - Hamburg 1986)
A Sculpture 'Modell Heegbarg, Komposition Kugelraum'
Lot-No. 332
Proceeds : 2.300 €
1973. Chrome-nickel-molybdenum-steel, welded on an oxidized iron plinth. Ligated monogr. to the top side of the plinth: 'JP'. H. 29,5 cm, w. 34 cm (sculpture), h. 108 cm (black lacquered stele). - From a private garden in Hamburg. - Literature: Cat. rais. Gädecke/Pfab no. 151. - Sculptor in Hamburg and leading representative of the steel plastic in Germany. After a training as stonemason, Pfab studied at the HfBK since 1946 in the class of Edwin Scharff. First he executed his works in bronze, as from 1961 in Chrome-Nickel-Molybdenum-Steel and therefore he had to learn the technology of welding. The most important for him was the monumental sculpture defined by prismatic, cubic and spheric structures. His large oeuvre contains not only numerous works for the Public Space but also small-sized sculptures as well as design objects. Mus.: Schleswig (SHLM), Hamburg (Kunsthalle). Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, J.P. - Das Lebenswerk, WVZ der Skulpturen, Objekte und Druckgrafik, bearb. T. Gädeke und Fotini Pfab, Kat. Schleswig 1989.
