Fresh and therefore still wet wood forced Henry Moore (1898 – 1986), the most famous British sculptor of the last century, into a new abstract visual language. To ensure that the wood would dry evenly and without cracks, Moore made sure that his very first […]
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Georg Baselitz no longer causes a scandal. Not even with a gigantic wooden sculpture of his little sister and her friends who were in the Hitler Youth. Arm in arm they are depicted, in their ‘BDM-Gruppe’. Raw and gigantic. The saw cuts of the chainsaw
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A wooden tablet with signs dated between 5470 and 4850 BC. Is it an example of a very early script, carved out during the late Stone Age? Or is the ‘Dispilio tablet’ a map of an early settlement in the province of Kastoria, high in
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Zadkine carved 131 sculptures in wood, including a gilded and majestic deer: ‘Le Cerf’. Not everyone knows that for sure. Say Zadkine and most people think of the war monument ‘The Destroyed City’ in Rotterdam. Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) assembled Le Cerf in 1923 from different
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When Karel Appel was still making wooden sculptures, like this ‘Windmill’, nobody would give a cent for the work of the young artist. It was shortly after World War II. Karel Appel (1921-2006) had completed his education at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under the German
I find it fascinating how in TV series history is dramatized to make a story exciting, full of ‘cliffhangers’. The streaming services go quite wild with their series about Vikings. In their primitive villages, Viking women emerge with complicated hairstyles as if they had spent
Once there was a first of everything. Or: the first. Saint Anthony Abbot was the very first monk in the world. Known to us as Saint Anthony the Abbot, he lived from 251 to 356 AD. He withdrew as a hermit to the eastern desert
After first being banished to the waste container, wood is completely back in interior design. This is noticed by artist Christine Langerhorst (1937), who already ran galleries with wooden art objects in Utrecht in the 1960s. Langerhorst makes magnificent books of wood. She was born
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A man sits on the stump of a tree trunk and plays a singing saw. As if mourning the sawn-down forest. The small painting is a typical Teun Hocks (1947 – 2022). On almost all his works he has depicted himself, as a man lost
The artist Femmy Otten (1981) succeeds in conquering the museum with her wood-carved artworks. With her impressive solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, she lifts wood sculpting out of the realm of craftsmanship by exploring major themes such as sexuality, womanhood, motherhood and vulnerability.
