Mann mit Rose. 2016.
Bronze, with colors.
Signed, dated and numbered on the stand. From an edition of 30 copies. Including plinth: 62 x 26.5 x 26.5 cm (24.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 in). [SM].

• Balkenhol's work was recently honored in a comprehensive exhibition at the Museum Lehmbruck.
• Stephan Balkenhol is the leading spirit behind the revival of figurative sculpting in the early 1980s.
• The 4 meter tall version of this sculpture is erected in a public square in Neuss.

"What I want [.] from my sculptures is that they are the cause or the starting point of everything else. If that's the case, the actual figure in the room is not the only thing that matters, what matters are the things it can convey. [.], moods, feelings, ideas. "
Quote from: Dirk Teuber, in: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1995, p. 2.