Horst Antes - Etching: the head

Etching by Horst Antes. Dimensions work: H38.5 x w30cm. Dimensions representation: H20.5 x w20.5cm. The work is not signed.

Upon purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The period for collection, with advance payment, is very generous, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. We can also ship the work with Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Antes studied Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1957 to 1959 with HAP Grieshaber painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe. Around 1960 he painted his first Kopffüßler (head-footer) and in 1963 he also created Kopffüßler three-dimensionally.

Representations with a deviating and simplified body scheme keep recurring in his work. In 1966 Antes designed metal sculptures for the so-called Garten der sieben Denkmäler der Lüste in the botanical garden of the Bundesgartenschau 1967 in Karlsruhe.

Since 1967 he has been professor of painting at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. In 1968 he was a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. Since 1983 Antes has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg .