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Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated by Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs:
Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated

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limited, 1,999 copies | numbered | signed | bronze + granite | chiselled | polished | patinated | partially gold-plated | size 12 x 11 x 7 cm (h/w/d) | weight 1 kg

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Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated
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Sculpture "The Sphinx with the Golden Helmet - The Miniature", bronze partially gold-plated

Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015), born in Vienna, was one of the co-founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. His work has had a crucial influence on the understanding of 20th-century art.

Whether the sphinx is a woman or a man depends on the different cultures. The Egyptian sphinx is depicted as a male with a human head and a lion's body. It was a symbol of power and a guardian figure that guarded the way to the temples. The most famous of all such sphinx sculptures is also one of the oldest: the head depicts the pharaoh Khafre (2540-2515 BC).
However, with the Greeks, the sphinx became a female figure. It was up to the art of symbolism to bring this figure back to life. It turned her into a figure of the mysterious Eros.

Ernst Fuchs follows this tradition with his "Sphinx with Gold Helmet". At the same time, he endows his motif, here as in many other works drawing not only from mythological but also from mythical sources, with clearly fantastic features. Fuchs' sphinx thus stands for the world and life mystery par excellence.

Fine bronze sculpture, cast using the Lost-Wax-Process, chiselled, polished and patinated by hand. With gilded helmet. Mounted on a pedestal of black granite. Limited to 1,999 numbered and signed copies. Size 12 x 11 x 7 cm (h/w/d). Weight 1 kg.

Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de

About Ernst Fuchs

1930-2015

Ernst Fuchs, born in Vienna in 1930, already presented his works to the public in 1946/47 together with other young artists during his studies at the Vienna Academy. He was one of the co-founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

This art movement emerged in Vienna around 1945 and deliberately set itself apart from abstract art. In their works, the artists dealt with French Surrealism, the experiences of New Objectivity and metaphysical painting as well as the fantastic elements of Viennese pre-war art. Ernst Fuchs' work has had a decisive influence on our understanding of 20th-century art.

The motifs are complex allegories depicting human afflictions between life and death. Biblical and mythological representations dominate. The motifs of the Old and New Testaments are deliberately enigmatic and visionary in expression. These riddles are meant to bring knowledge and solution to the viewer as well as to the artist.

His engagement with the heterogeneous art traditions led him to his historicism. He mixed the styles, sometimes in a polemical way. In his first book, "Architectura Caelestis: Images of the Hidden Prime of Styles" first published in 1964, he set out his artistic conception.

The imaginative pictorial inventions, often alienated by surreal elements, evoke something mystical and often erotic. Fuchs' entire oeuvre is repeatedly permeated by biblical motifs. They all culminate in the unique book, the Ernst Fuchs Bible.

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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.

Term for an art object (sculpture, installation) that, according to the artist’s intention, is produced in multiple copies within a limited and numbered edition.

Multiples enable the "democratization" of art by making the work accessible and affordable for a wider audience.

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.

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