Frau mit Mann unter Bank. 1997.
Wooden sculpture. Wawa wood, partly in colors, loosely placed on the base.
96 x 70 x 49 cm (37.7 x 27.5 x 19.2 in). Base: 96 x 70 x 49 cm (37,7 x 27,5 x 19,2 in).
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• Characteristic haptics: grooves, fissures, splinters and cracks hint at the sculptural working process.
• Stephan Balkenhol's wooden works have an incomparable recognition value.
• Balkenhol is the leading spirit behind the revival of figurative sculpture in the early 1980s.
• Balkenhol's unmistakable works are at, , among others, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Kunstmuseum Basel.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.

"I believe [..] that basically every depiction of a human figure is of an existentialist nature simply because it raises the question as to who I am, what I am doing here on earth, how I see, think and feel."
Stephan Balkenhol in a talk with Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Kunstforum, Band 144, 1999, Gespräche mit Künstlern, p. 272.