Garden sculpture "Stork" (without stone), bronze
Garden sculpture "Stork" (without stone), bronze
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limited, 99 copies | numbered | signed | bronze | hand chased and patinated | size 108 x 62 x 25 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 28 kg
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Garden sculpture "Stork" (without stone), bronze
The stork is standing with its plumage made of bronze is life-size and lifelike. Bronze sculpture, cast using the Lost-Wax-Process, chiselled and patinated by hand. Limited to 99 numbered and signed copies. Size 108 x 62 x 25 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 28 kg. Delivery without stone.
About Peter Roman Heid
Peter Roman Heid, born in 1928, completed an apprenticeship as a wood and stone sculptor before World War II and then trained as a ceramist from 1946 to 1948. In 1948, he studied sculpture under Josef Henselmann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and became his master-class student in 1950.
Starting in 1955, Heid has worked as a freelance sculptor and designed many churches and public places in the decades that followed. For more than twenty years, he also rendered outstanding services to young sculptors. From 1970 to 1992, he was head of the technical school for stonemasons and stone sculptors at the master-class student school in Kaiserslautern and was even its director from 1988. Since his retirement in 1992, he has worked exclusively as a freelance sculptor.
An alloy of copper with other metals (especially with tin) used since ancient times.
When casting bronze, the artist usually applies the lost-wax technique which is dating back more than 5000 years. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
First, the artist forms a model of his sculpture. It is embedded in a liquid silicone rubber mass. Once the material has solidified, the model is cut out. The liquid wax is 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, whereby the wax flows out (lost mould).
Now we finally have the negative form, into which the 1400° C hot molten bronze is poured. After the bronze had cooled down, the ceramic shell is broken off and the sculpture is revealed.
Now the sprues are removed, the surfaces are polished, patinated and numbered by the artist himself or, to his specifications, by a specialist. Thus, each casting becomes 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 complex lost-wax technique in terms of surface characteristics and quality.
Term for an art object (sculpture, installation), which is produced in multiple copies in a limited and numbered edition according to the artist‘s will.
Artist's multiples have been called the most accessible and affordable art on the market.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, 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.