Brockhage, Hans (1925 Schwarzenberg - 2009 ibid.)

Lot 9035 limit € 2.300

Sculpture, oak wood, staff statuettes (1995), large object worked with various tools from trunk parts and boards placed together in a cross shape, blackened, mounted on stainless steel plate, nice condition with only minor chipping on the edges, approx. 235 x 80 x 50 cm, the plate approx. 40 x 40 cm, exhibited in the Beethovenstraße gallery in Düsseldorf in 1995, illustrated in: Hans Brockhage: Handling wood, Schwarzenberg 2004, Chapter Individual and Many, fig Turner, then from 1947-52 studied at the HbK Dresden with Mart Stam and Marianne Brandt, with whom he was friends until their death, development of the rocking wagon (awarded in 1957 and 1960), 1952-55 work at the Institute for Applied Arts Berlin, then freelance in Schwarzenberg, 1967-77 lecturer at the HS Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, from 1968 first sculptural works in H wood and concrete as well as several years of cooperation with the VEB Kunstgewerbewerkstätten Olbernhau, 1971 first exhibition in the Grassi-Museum Leipzig (together with T. Reichardt), 1973 co-founder of the Chemnitz gallery Oben, 1977-1989 professor at the FS for applied arts Schneeberg (wood class), from 1985 free figurative works and montages in oak, concrete and bronze, 1985-90 collaboration with the Chemnitz artist Gregor Torsten Kozik, 1989-91 sculpture exhibition in the baroque garden monastery Kamp-Lintfort (NRW), from 2000 publication of publications about Marianne Brandt, woodcarving in the Erzgebirge and the autobiographical volume of photos and text Handling Wood, 2015/16 Personal exhibition in the German Bundestag // Saxon Artists