Sculpture "Painters' Tribe" (2002), bronze
Sculpture "Painters' Tribe" (2002), bronze
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limited, 9 copies | numbered | signed | bronze | height 32 cm
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Sculpture "Painters' Tribe" (2002), bronze
Bronze sculpture, 2002. Edition: 9 copies, numbered and stamped. Height: 32 cm
Producer: ARTES Kunsthandelsgesellschaft mbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hannover, Deutschland, E-Mail: [email protected]
About Jörg Immendorff
1945-2007, German painter, graphic artist, sculptor
Jörg Immendorff, born in Bleckede, Germany, is one of the most important contemporary German artists with worldwide recognition.
In the 1970s he developed an emphatically object-related visual language with symbolic, art-historical and political allusions. "Every picture by Immendorff is a critical representation of a cultural-political situation," writes Lorand Hegyi about the artist. His pictures are today exhibited in the world’s most important museums.
Through his friendship with the painter A.R. Penck, who was still living in East Germany in 1976, the painter and sculptor Jörg Immendorff developed a history painting that reflects and critically examines the theme of German division. This year he began the series of sixteen large-format paintings "Café Deutschland". In this series, his striking and stylistically pluralistic painting style found expression in an inspiring way.
Immendorff's political ambitions already emerged during his training at the Düsseldorf Academy. One of his teachers was Josef Beuys, with whom he worked closely.
Immendorff founded the LIDL Academy and used LIDL as a pseudonym, which represented politically oriented art. He understood his politically engaged paintings as art that served the nation and the working people. He is the utopian among painters: "I am the only painter in the history of art who worked on a utopia that then became concrete" (German Reunification).
His sculptural style is characterised by an expressiveness comparable to that of the artists' community "Die Brücke". And again through his sculptures historical and social issues are forcefully traced.
His paintings and sculptures are presented to the interested art public in extensive exhibitions of important museums.
An alloy of copper with other metals (especially with tin) used since ancient times. It is an ideal metal for high-quality artistic castings, capable of enduring for millennia.
When casting bronze, the artist usually applies the lost-wax technique which is dating back more than 5000 years. This is the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
First, the artist forms a model of their work. This model is embedded in a liquid silicone rubber mass. Once the material has solidified, the model is cut out, leaving a negative mould. Liquid wax is then poured into the negative mould. After cooling down, the wax cast is removed from the mould, provided with sprues and dipped into ceramic mass. The ceramic mass is hardened in a kiln, where the wax melts away (lost mould).
Finally, the negative mould is ready, into which the 1400° C hot molten bronze is poured. After the bronze had cooled down, the ceramic shell is broken apart, reavoling the sculpture.
Next, the sprues are removed, the surfaces are polished, patinated and numbered by the artist or by a specialist, following their instructions. Thus, each casting is an original work.
For lower-quality bronze castings, the sand casting method is often used, which, however, does not achieve the results of a more elaborate lost-wax technique in terms of surface characteristics and quality.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.