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Joachim Berthold"Seated Figure Looking Up" Modern Mid Century Bronze 20th Century
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A beautiful modernist 20th Century Bronze piece by Joachim Berthold. Here we find this stylish figure sitting in a hoping position looking up that eludes thought and complexity. A mesmerizing piece that fuzes abstract expressionism effortlessly. Blending in a subtle way the human figure with the object, which in this case is a chair, making it as one. This piece is made from bronze and is a limited edition of 1 of 9. Signed by the artist on the lower back of the figure and this particular piece is hollow inside and it weights 1,880 grams that is a little over 4 pounds.
Sculpture measures 8.75 x 3 x 4 inches
Joachim Berthold was born 1917 in Eisenach, lived and worked until his death in 1990 in Oberaudorf am Inn. In 1936 he began his training at the renow ned Werkschule in Cologne. There he met his artist colleague and later wife Gisela BertholdSames and he continued his studies until 1941 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1945 he worked as a freelance sculptor. This was followed by hard artist years in which the execution of any commissioned work to secure a livelihood left little time for free work. Gradually, the situation improved until, from the 1960s, it gained international renown through more and more numerous and important exhibitions at home and abroad, large orders from industry and cities as well as museum acquisitions.
Berthold's appearance was striking. This corresponds to his figurative, mainly in bronze realized small to larger than lifesized sculptures. The topic of his work was the man. He was not concerned with the representation of individual, external manifestations. His sculptures are reduced to the essentials, re main in their economical movements, without facial expressions, anonymous and timeless. The essence of man and his development between becoming and decay were his concerns.
Through the mental processing of Greek metaphors, he concentrated on the depiction of the human forms involved in a matter or in their own body form and dissolving out of it, as well as cast their own shadow. Berthold's typical formal idiom lives from the antagonism of convex and concave, perfectly smoothed and rough, sometimes broken surfaces, exposing the underlying innermost amorphous layers.
PROVENANCE: Lilac Gallery Collection.
- Creator:Joachim Berthold (1917 - 1990, German)
- Creation Year:20th Century
- Dimensions:Height: 8.75 in (22.23 cm)Width: 3 in (7.62 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
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