Bronze, with brown patina
Austria, 1970/80s
Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-2009) – Austrian sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftsman and writer
Signed with the artist’s initials in the cast lower right ‘A.H.’ and embossed numbering ‘5/60’
Dimensions: 22.5 x 31 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
Small bronze relief with the crucifixion scene, to the left two executioners hanging Jesus, a further seated figure, to the right a praying priest

Condition:

The bronze relief is in very good condition. With a hook at the back to mount the piece. The overall dimensions are 22.5 x 31 cm. This is a copy from the bronze-edition which was made in the course of Hrdlicka’s work on the German Peasants' War (Deutscher Bauernkrieg).

Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-2009)

Alfred Hrdlicka was born in Vienna in 1928. From 1946 to 1952, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste under Albert Paris von Gütersloh and Josef Dobrowski and later with the sculptor Fritz Wotruba. After his first exhibition ‘Sculpture, Painting and Prints’ in the Viennese Zedlitzhalle, he achieved international prominence in 1964, when he represented Austria at the 32nd Venice Biennial along with Herbert Boeckl. From 1970 to 1989, he was a professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, as well as the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. His figurative and expressionistic works are some of the most important works of contemporary Austrian art. (tm)

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