Sculpture "Wartburg Angel", cast wood finish
Sculpture "Wartburg Angel", cast wood finish
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cast | patinated | size 64 x 30 cm (h/w)
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Sculpture "Wartburg Angel", cast wood finish
One of the most beautiful surviving works is the kneeling angel figure on the Wartburg. Our edition also features the darkened surface preferred by the artist, like the original, of course, without a coloured version.
Original privately owned.
Polymer cast, cast by hand, with wood finish, patinated by hand. Height 64 cm, width 30 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Tilman Riemenschneider
Around 1460-1531
The works of Tilman Riemenschneider represent the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance like hardly any other sculptor. With his outstanding genius craftsmanship, he breathed new life into the old traditions. He was the first artist to frequently dispense with painting his works and discovered the play of light and shadow as a creative element. In this way, he created magnificent compositions full of emotional tension, in which he brought his figures to life with expressive faces, accentuated gestures and dramatic drapery.
The carver and sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider was born around 1460 in the Harz region in Germany and died in 1531 in Würzburg. Through his wanderings, he was able to visit Swabia and the Upper Rhine. He finally settled in Würzburg, where he achieved such renown that he was elected mayor.
Riemenschneider's works tie in with Swabian and Upper Rhine art in the tradition of Gerhaert van Leyden. However, the depictions also show that he must have been familiar with the prints of his contemporaries Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Riemenschneider progressed from a two-dimensional interweaving of forms to ever greater spatiality. His multi-figure compositions became structured.
His preferred materials were lime wood and Franconian sandstone, but also marble and alabaster.
Riemenschneider became famous for his altars. His best known is the Altar of Maria in Creglingen. Riemenschneider was an innovator primarily in carved altars: he was one of the first sculptors to dispense with coloured painting. His figures differ from the contemporary late Gothic in their lyrical tenderness and inwardness.
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Stone Casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that instead of marble powder, the stone to be replicated is used in powder form.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Through special polishing and patination techniques, the surface of the cast takes on an appearance similar to that of bronze.
Imitation Wood
In order to guarantee absolute fidelity to the original, an artificially manufactured imitation wood is used as a base material that features typical wood characteristics: density, workability, colour, and surface structure.
Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.
Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax-Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
A true-to-the-original reproduction of an artwork in the same size and with the best possible material and colour uniformity.
The mould is usually taken directly from the original so that the replication reproduces even the finest details. After casting the replication, using the most appropriate method, the surface is polished, patinated, gilded or painted according to the original.
A replication of ars mundi is a recognizable copy of the original.
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.