Balden, Theo (1904 Blumenau/Brazil - 1995 Berlin)

Lot 9545 limit € 9.800

Bronze, dark brown patina, "The Kiss III", mounted on a white plywood stele, WVZ No. 90-07, total height approx. 120.5 cm, H bronze approx. 41 cm, cf. Lit.: S. Hebecker 2004, P. 136, further copies of the sculpture in the Academy of Arts, Berlin and in the foyer of the Stadthalle Chemnitz, real name Otto Koehler, 1923/24 studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar, among others with Lászlo Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer, from 1924 freelancer Artist, 1929 member of the Association of Revolutionary Artists (Asso), 1935 after imprisonment fled to Prague under the name Theo Balden, co-founder of the Oskar Kokoschka Association of German and Austrian Artists there, 1939-1947 exile in Great Britain, 1948-1950 employee of Ulenspiegel satirical magazine, 1950-58 teacher at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, from 1970 member of the German Academy of Arts, 1974 honorary member of the VBK