Brockhage, Hans (1925 Schwarzenberg - 2009 ibid.)

Lot 9543 limit € 650

Large sculpture, oak wood, untitled, wooden stele processed with various tools, surface treated with bone glue and black pigment, abstract figurative representation, mounted on a wooden base, below the base inscribed "Brockhage 1986 Schwarzenberg", H approx. 130 cm, cf. "H. Brockhage, handling wood, 2004", sculptor and designer, after military service from 1945 apprenticeship as a wood sculptor and turner, then from 1947-52 studies at the HBK Dresden with Mart Stam, among others, development of the rocking wagon (1957 award), 1950/51 student in the seminar of Marianne Brandt, with whom he was friends until her death, 1967-77 lecturer at the HS Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, from 1968 first sculptural works in wood and concrete, 1971 first exhibition in the Grassi Museum Leipzig, co-founder of the Chemnitz gallery Oben, 1977 appointed professor at the FS for Applied Arts Schneeberg, from 1985 free-figure works and montages, from 2000 publication several books, among others, about Marianne Brandt, the art of carving in the Ore Mountains and his own work, numerous exhibitions, including 2015/16 in the German Bundestag. In addition to concrete and bronze, Brockhage primarily used wood as a traditional material from his homeland in the Ore Mountains. The often only roughly hewn trunks from which he created his works of art always reflect the peculiarities of the natural material.