Stephan Balkenhol

Stephan Balkenhol 1957 Mann und Frau. 1983. Wooden sculpture. European beech, partly in color. Height: each ca. 202 cm (79.5 in). • Groundbreaking: In retrospect, Balkenhol described this outstanding seminal piece as a “key work” in his oeuvre. • Of museum quality: The first sculptures of human figures Balkenhol created in his typical coarse style • Archetypal aesthetics in a captivating monumental size. • From the year of his artistic breakthrough. • Shown at, among others, the grand 2006 Balkenhol retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, the Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, and the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. PROVENANCE: Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach (directly from the artist). Private collection, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1985, until 2017, Ketterer Kunst, June 10, 2017, lot 861). Private collection, Southern Germany (since 2017). EXHIBITION: Impulse I, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, May 15 - June 22, 1983. Stephan Balkenhol. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Kunstverein Brunswick, February 6 - March 15, 1987 (illustrated on pp. 60 and 61). Neue Kunst in Hamburg 1987. Stephan Balkenhol, Hella Berent, Werner Büttner, Andreas Coerper, Markus Oehlen, exhibition at Halle K3, Hamburg, February 6 - March 8, 1987 (illustrated on pp. 12 and 13). Stephan Balkenhol, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, July 15 - September 17, 2006; Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, September 28, 2006 - January 28, 2007 ; Museum der Moderne Salzburg February 17 - June 24, 2007, p. 207. (with illustrations 5a and 5b, as well as a full-page illustration on pp. 58 and 59). LITERATURE: Neal Benezra, Stephan Balkenhol. Sculptures and Drawings, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithonian Institution, Washington D.C., Stuttgart 1995, p. 28 (with illustration 8 (Woman) and on p. 73). "I consider my first full-body sculpture Mann und Frau (Man and Woman) a key work in which I succeeded in capturing virginity and naivety in a positive sense; a freshness that, of course, can never be achieved again." Stephan Balkenhol, 2017 "I believe that timeless art always bears a high degree of topicality. When I look at an Egyptian head, it seems to me as if I could encounter the depicted, mostly idealized person today, too." Stephan Balkenhol, quoted from ex. cat. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Cologne 2008, p. 114 Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 14.53 h +/- 20 min.

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