Erwin A. Schinzel:
Sculpture "Waves", bronze version partially gold-plated
Erwin A. Schinzel:
Sculpture "Waves", bronze version partially gold-plated

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limited, total 179 copies | offered here: 20 copies in bronze partially gold-plated | numbered | signature | certificate | patinated | polished | size 27.5 x 25 x 20.5 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 5.85 kg

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Sculpture "Waves", bronze version partially gold-plated
Erwin A. Schinzel: Sculpture "Waves", bronze version part...

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Sculpture "Waves", bronze version partially gold-plated

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Erwin A. Schinzel: Sculpture "Waves" is available in two versions.

On 24 October 2019, Erwin A. Schinzel would have turned 100 years old. Throughout his life, Schinzel was considered a "classic" artist among sculptors. An artist who created works that are completely in the tradition of their art openly and undisguisedly inherits the greats of their field and yet knows how to appear up-to-date. His works show the sovereignty of craftsmanship in which accuracy and perfection of representation are the highest standards of sculpture.
His sculptures primarily focus on one theme: the human being, and this in its undisguised beauty. These sculptures are an unbroken celebration of beauty, and to a certain extent, it is also the eye of the beholder that is celebrated here.

Sculpture "Waves":
She has just emerged from the waves. The power of the sun is drying her skin, while her hair is pinned up with an artfully tied hair ribbon. With her eyes closed, she listens to the sea. Schinzel's work thus appeals doubly to the viewer's senses: The visible and the audible are equally present.

Sculpture in fine bronze, cast using the Lost-Wax-Process, patinated and polished by hand. Limited total edition 179 copies, of which 20 copies in bronze with a gilded hair band (offered here), numbered and signed by Prof. Schinzel. Including a hand-numbered certificate. Size 27.5 x 25 x 20.5 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 5.85 kg. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.

About Erwin A. Schinzel

German sculptor, 1919-2018

Erwin A. Schinzel was a true "classic" artist among sculptors. An artist who created works that are entirely in the tradition of their art. They openly and undisguisedly inherit the greats of their field and yet still appear up to date.

His works show the sovereignty of craftsmanship of a time when accuracy and perfection of representation were still the highest standards of sculpture. They deliberately ignore all the fashions and modernisms of the century that essentially encompassed his lifetime.

Schinzel was noticed early on for his creative genius: Just twenty years old, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and was accepted into the small, exclusive circle of Arno Breker's master students. He took trips to Greece and Crete, where he studied the ancient examples of sculpture.

He was a freelance artist for eight decades and created hundreds of sculptures during this period. Furthermore, he worked as a professor at the International Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in Altenburg and the International Academy in Bologna.

His sculptures mainly have one theme: the human being in all its undisguised beauty. With these sculptures, beauty appears unbroken. And it is, in a sense, the eye of the beholder that is celebrated here.

"The human being who, with creative talent, gives the experience of his environment back to us so that people can find themselves delighted in it, can only and need to see with the eyes of the soul in order to speak with his hands a language that is timeless and knows no boundaries." (Erwin A. Schinzel)

His oeuvre, which comprises many hundreds of works, also includes numerous depictions of animals, which in their vividness of execution can rival the works of the greatest animalists at any time.

Works from Schinzel's studio in Waldbronn, Germany, where he pursued his creative work daily, can be found in numerous collections at home and abroad. The artist passed away in December 2018.

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