Architekturskizze VIII (Treppe). 1997.
Wawa-Wood, in color.
Signed, dated and numbered “VIII” on the underside of the base. 47.5 x 24 x 25 cm (18.7 x 9.4 x 9.8 in). [AW].

• Man is central to Stephan Balkenhol's artistic work, not as an individual, but as an anonymous yet strangely familiar person.
• Using the classic form of wood carving, he returns to the original technique of this genre.
• Characteristic surface finish with unsmoothed chisel marks.
• The contemporary artist's unmistakable works are part of the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Kunstmuseum Basel.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach.
Private collection, Hesse (acquired from the above in 1997).

EXHIBITION: Stephan Balkenhol. Skulpturen, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, May 17 - June 28, 1998; Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, July 5 - September 6, 1998; Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré-Sammlung, September 20 - November 29, 1998.