Garden sculpture "Stork, clattering", bronze
Garden sculpture "Stork, clattering", bronze
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limited, 99 copies | numbered | signed | bronze | hand chased and patinated | size 125 x 50 x 25 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 31.5 kg
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Garden sculpture "Stork, clattering", bronze
You almost believe you can hear the clattering of the beak. Bronze sculpture, cast using the Lost-Wax-Process, chiselled and patinated by hand. Limited to 99 numbered and signed copies. Size 125 x 50 x 25 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 31.5 kg.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
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. It is an ideal metal for high-quality artistic castings, capable of enduring for millennia.
When casting bronze, the artist usually applies the lost-wax technique which is dating back more than 5000 years. This is the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
First, the artist forms a model of their work. This model is embedded in a liquid silicone rubber mass. Once the material has solidified, the model is cut out, leaving a negative mould. Liquid wax is then 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, where the wax melts away (lost mould).
Finally, the negative mould is ready, into which the 1400° C hot molten bronze is poured. After the bronze had cooled down, the ceramic shell is broken apart, reavoling the sculpture.
Next, the sprues are removed, the surfaces are polished, patinated and numbered by the artist or by a specialist, following their instructions. Thus, each casting is 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 elaborate lost-wax technique in terms of surface characteristics and quality.
Term for an art object (sculpture, installation) that, according to the artist’s intention, is produced in multiple copies within a limited and numbered edition.
Multiples enable the "democratization" of art by making the work accessible and affordable for a wider audience.