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

Lot 9566 limit € 450

Bronze, black patina, lovers, signed and dated (19)58, L approx. 17 cm, CR No. 58-04, cf. Lit.: Theo Balden 2004, p. 112, another copy in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, real Otto Koehler, 1923/24 studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar, among others with Lászlo Moholy-Nagy and Oskar Schlemmer, from 1924 freelance artist, 1929 member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (Asso), 1935 after imprisonment fled to Prague under the name Theo Balden, there co-founder of the Oskar Kokoschka Association of German and Austrian artists, 1939-47 exile in Great Britain, 1948-50 employee of the satirical magazine Ulenspiegel, 1950-58 teacher at the KHS Berlin-Weißensee, from 1970 member of the German Academy of Arts, 1974 honorary member of the VBK