Loriot:
Sculpture "The Little Thinker", bronze version
Loriot:
Sculpture "The Little Thinker", bronze version

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limited, 20 E.A. copies | numbered | signature | bronze | patinated | polished | size 20 x 14 x 14.5 cm (w/h/d) | weight approx. 2 kg

Product no. IN-425717
Sculpture "The Little Thinker", bronze version
Loriot: Sculpture "The Little Thinker", bronze version

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Sculpture "The Little Thinker", bronze version

Loriot's humorous answer to the eponymous sculpture "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin is already a classical three-dimensional bronze multiple and has been sold out for years.

Because a great thinker also needs many "little thinkers" to answer all the unanswered questions of everyday life, the sculpture "The Little Thinker" was published. In addition to this official numbered edition intended for sale, the artist usually receives a few E.A. copies (= "Epreuves d'Artiste"). This edition contains a few E.A. copies from the artist's archive.

Fine bronze sculpture, cast by hand using the Lost-Wax-Process, patinated and polished by hand. Limited edition 980 copies + 20 E.A. copies (offered here). Individually numbered, with Loriot's signature. Size 20 x 14 x 14.5 cm (w/h/d). Weight approx. 2 kg.

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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