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Stephan Balkenhol
German artist
Stephan Balkenhol (born 1957, Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany) is a German artist, famous for his figurative painted wooden sculptures and reliefs.
He is currently Professor of Sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (Germany). Lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany and Meisenthal, France.
Life and career
Balkenhol attended the Hamburg School of Fine Arts from 1976 to 1982, and studied under Ulrich Rückriem with Nam June Paik and Sigmar Polke among his tutors.
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Balkenhol began sculptural wood carving in the mid-1980s. His totem-like sculptures of everyday people continue the European tradition of wooden sculpture and reference folk art and medieval and classical Greek sculpture.
As a response to the abstract, minimalist and conceptual approaches of the Hamburg School, Balkenhol decided to concentrate on an everyday persona, instead of an idol or hero. By the 1990s, his repertoire had expanded to include animals and hybrid creatures