2024. Bronze, painted in color. H. 67 x 27 x 27 cm. Signed and dated on the reverse St. Balkenhol 2024, numbered copy 37/40. From the special edition commemorating the 2024 UEFA European Championship. A soccer player wearing the traditional uniform of the German national team, standing with his right foot on the ball and his left arm resting on his hip - Balkenhol is one of the most important and popular sculptors of the present, 1976-1982 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Ulrich Rückriem, then he was a teacher at the St?delsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, and taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe until 2023. The human being is at the center of his work; roughly worked and colorfully painted wooden sculptures are characteristic of his work: 'My sculptures do not tell stories. Something mysterious is hidden in them. It is not my task to reveal it, but that of the viewer to discover it' (Balkenhol). For the public space B. created numerous works at home and abroad. Mus.: Basel (Kunstmuseum); Frankfurt (Museum für Moderne Kunst); K?ln (Museum Ludwig) u.v.a.

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