Bronze sculpture "The Butthand" by Günter Grass

Sculpture "The Butthand", bronze

"The butt" belongs to Günter Grass' best known novels. Grass takes the butt of the fairy tale of the "Fischer and Syner Fru"; The speaking fish is storyteller and historian, gives advice, stimulates discussions and is even controversial. A symbolic sculpture full of expressiveness, which is not for nothing as a reduced version of this original multiples for the "German Book Prize" and awarded every year in Leipzig.

Bronze sculpture, patinated by hand. Poured by hand in the wax melting process. Limited edition 70 copies, numbered and signed. Height total 63 cm. Weight approx. 12 kg.

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About Günter Grass
1927-2015

The Günter Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is considered an important representative of German literature. In addition, he also made a name for himself as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. Not without his own stir, he said of himself: "As a visual artist, I am a more learned, as a writer of unskilled artists."

After a stonemason training, Grass studied sculpture at the Academy in Düsseldorf in 1948/49 and in 1953 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. Grass became known as the writer in 1959 with the first part of the so -called "Gdansk Trilogy", the "sheet metal drum". Grass has developed an increasingly increasing political commitment since the early 1960s, which was sustainable in his books against mirrors t. In the 1980s, numerous graphic works were created, which were published in the two -volume work "Drawing and writing". This is where self -quotes are particularly emphasized and underline his time criticism.

Used techniques: casting technology

Materials used: bronze

Edition / edition: Multiple

Motif (e): animals

Color (s): bronze