Provenance
Private property, Hesse - Balkenhol is one of the most important and popular sculptors of the present, 1976-1982 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Ulrich R眉ckriem, then he was a teacher at the St盲delsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, and taught as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe until 2023. The human being is at the center of his work; roughly worked and colorfully painted wooden sculptures are characteristic of his work: 'My sculptures do not tell stories. Something mysterious is hidden in them. It is not my task to reveal it, but that of the viewer to discover it' (Balkenhol). For the public space B. created numerous works at home and abroad. Mus.: Basel (Kunstmuseum); Frankfurt (Museum f眉r Moderne Kunst); K枚ln (Museum Ludwig) u.v.a.