Loriot:
"Loriot's Candlestick", cast version
Loriot:
"Loriot's Candlestick", cast version

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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 1,499 copies | numbered | signed | certificate | cast | hand-painted | size 11 x 32 x 9 cm (w/h/d) | weight 2 kg

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"Loriot's Candlestick", cast version
Loriot: "Loriot's Candlestick", cast version

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"Loriot's Candlestick", cast version

"It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard," the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg from Göttingen, Germany. He was certainly one of Loriot's intellectual forefathers and wrote in one of his famous "Sudelbücher". Loriot's "Torchbearer" provides light and the right view of things with a stoic mien and obvious pride.

Edition in hand-painted cast with removable holder (patinated bronze rod with copper bowl). Limited edition of 1,499 copies, individually numbered and signed by Loriot. Numbered certificate of authenticity and limitation. Size 11 x 32 x 9 cm (w/h/d), weight 2 kg. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.

The candle is not included. Due to the material, which can melt when exposed to excessive heat, we recommend that the candles must not burn down completely. Do not leave lit candles unattended.

Portrait of the artist Loriot

About Loriot

1923-2011, a german draughtsman, cartoonist, author, humourist, opera director

He won several german "golden" awards: two Golden Cameras, two Golden Records, the Golden Screen, the Golden Gramophone and the Golden Lion of Honour. Not to mention the Ernst Lubitsch and Adolph Grimme prizes, the Telestar or the Sonderbambi... He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his special services.

Loriot is best known for his cartoons and sketches with the characters feature of bulbous noses. For example, two popular characters are Mr Müller-Lüdenscheid and Dr Klöbner, who - unawares - get into the same hotel bathtub and argue so delightful about whether the rubber duck should be allowed in the water or not... In his books, Loriot has dealt intensively with the passage of time. "Loriot's Diary - Zeitgeschehen von Meisterhand" or "Loriot's Heile Welt - Neue gesammelte Texte und Zeichnungen zu brennenden Fragen der Zeit" are just two out of many examples.

Vicco von Bülow, alias Loriot, was without a doubt the "grand seigneur" of German humour. His sketches are often known by heart by a lot of people and no matter the art he was creating - whether as a caricaturist, a humourist, an actor or director - he always achieved something special and memorable.

"Comedy, as I understand it, always deals with self-irony, otherwise something is missing. You have to include yourself." This is the secret to his success and noticeable in all his works. That‘s why his humour is never disparaging, never hurtful. Loriot was always extremely tender even with the characters in his most accurate parodies and precisely observed exposures of middle-class narrow-mindedness. Loriot’s humour, one could say, is not a sharp dagger for grim confrontations, but a fine scalpel that ultimately works towards healing the world with every cut.

The "grand seigneur" of German humour died in August 2011.

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