Geer Steyn - Bronze medal | Association for Medal Art | 'Bertolt Brecht' | 1978 - Sold
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- Description
- Geer Steyn (1945)
| Type of artwork | Sculpture / Object |
| Year | 1978 |
| Technique | Bronze |
| Dimensions | 6 x 6 x 1.5 cm (h x w x d) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
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Beautiful medal by Geer Steyn, issued in 1978 by VPK (Association for Medal Art).
The whole is in neat condition. The first two photos are of the medal in question. The last two photos come from the VPK site, for a good impression of the medal.
Esser successfully put into practice the idea, so strongly propagated by Rodin, that sculpture is handicraft and that its traces may be visible in the result - expression converted into technique - and passed it on to his students. The special thing about Steyn's Brecht is the very emphatic but effective and original form treatment: a fingerprint on the temple. This cavity fills a large part of the head without becoming obtrusive and gives the top and back of the skull more volume. The head of the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) appears high in the background, an ironic look and a wonderful suggestion of steel glasses through which he looks at the World. Steyn modeled a large number of variants: a reading one, an alert one, a disappointed one, a martial one, a thoughtful Brecht, etc. He ultimately opted for a combative Brecht, a synthesis that is also very similar. The reverse shows the national poet standing in profile, wearing his inseparable worker's cap, with a laconic quote from his Threepenny Opera next to him: 'It's different but so it is'. This applies to Brecht's view on life, but not to Steyn's creation: that is how he is and no different. (source website VPK)
The whole is in neat condition. The first two photos are of the medal in question. The last two photos come from the VPK site, for a good impression of the medal.
Esser successfully put into practice the idea, so strongly propagated by Rodin, that sculpture is handicraft and that its traces may be visible in the result - expression converted into technique - and passed it on to his students. The special thing about Steyn's Brecht is the very emphatic but effective and original form treatment: a fingerprint on the temple. This cavity fills a large part of the head without becoming obtrusive and gives the top and back of the skull more volume. The head of the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) appears high in the background, an ironic look and a wonderful suggestion of steel glasses through which he looks at the World. Steyn modeled a large number of variants: a reading one, an alert one, a disappointed one, a martial one, a thoughtful Brecht, etc. He ultimately opted for a combative Brecht, a synthesis that is also very similar. The reverse shows the national poet standing in profile, wearing his inseparable worker's cap, with a laconic quote from his Threepenny Opera next to him: 'It's different but so it is'. This applies to Brecht's view on life, but not to Steyn's creation: that is how he is and no different. (source website VPK)
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| Condition | Very good | ||||||||||
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| Pick up | The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Woudrichem, The Netherlands | ||||||||||
| Shipment | Parcel post | ||||||||||
| Price | Up to 5 kg.
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