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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Exhibitions:<\/p>\n

Numerous solo exhibitions.<\/p>\n

1964 \u2013 Group exhibition at the Mus\u00e9e Rodin, Paris<\/p>\n

German Sculpture, Dokumenta III, Kassel<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 The Georg Museum in Berlin devoted an exhibition to him, presenting 35 of his sculptures.<\/p>\n

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Commentary:<\/p>\n

Gerson Fehrenbach lived and worked in Berlin throughout his life. He died in 2004. He created more than a dozen sculptures for public monuments and gardens in Germany. Many of his works are also held in private and public collections. He participated in numerous solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions, notably in 1964 in Paris at the Mus\u00e9e Rodin exhibition German Sculpture and at Dokumenta III in Kassel.<\/p>\n

In 2000, the Georg Museum in Berlin dedicated an exhibition to him featuring 35 of his sculptures.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter studying under Karl Hartung, Gerson Fehrenbach spent a year in Florence, then another year in Istanbul where he taught. Fehrenbach\u2019s works stand at the boundary between the figurative and the immaterial, drawn at times toward one pole and at times toward the other. They are always composed according to the tectonic principle \u2014 that is, in Fehrenbach\u2019s particular case, according to both natural and human laws: organic\u2013constructive, unconscious\u2013conscious.<\/em><\/p>\n

They unite two antithetical principles into a singular stylistic unity made of art and nature, something Heinz Ohff describes very clearly in the preface to one of Fehrenbach\u2019s exhibition catalogues:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018From Hartung and Maillol, he borrowed the conception \u2014 in reality, a task consisting not in copying nature, but in interpreting it, allowing one\u2019s own work to become absorbed into it, just as trees merge into the forest.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Preface by Lucie Schauer, Eleven Sculptors from Berlin, Goethe Institut, 1984<\/em><\/p>\n

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Biography:<\/p>\n

Gerson Fehrenbach was born on February 18, 1932, in Villingen, in Germany\u2019s Black Forest region.<\/p>\n

In 1946, he began an apprenticeship in wood sculpture.<\/p>\n

In 1951, he trained at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bondorf \/ Black Forest under Walter Shelenz.<\/p>\n

In 1954, he received a scholarship from the Freiburg im Breisgau Arts Society and also undertook a study stay in Paris.<\/p>\n

From 1954 to 1960, he studied sculpture at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. He was awarded scholarships from the Cultural Circle of the Federation of German Industry and from the German National Academic Foundation.<\/p>\n

In 1959, he became a student of the sculptor Karl Hartung at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. He participated in the first European Sculptors\u2019 Symposium in Austria and received the Grand Salon Art Prize in Berlin.<\/p>\n

In 1962, he received the Villa Romana Prize and stayed in Florence.<\/p>\n

From 1963 to 1975, he served as assistant to Professor Erich F. Reuter in the Department of Plastic Composition at the Technical University of Berlin.<\/p>\n

In 1967, he became a member of the German Artists\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n

In 1968, he was invited as a guest lecturer at the Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n

From 1978 to 1979, he was a lecturer in Plastic Composition at the Technical University of Berlin.<\/p>\n

From 1985 to 1990, he collaborated with the architect Bodo Fleischer on the new theater project in Pforzheim.<\/p>\n

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Bibliography:<\/p>\n

Werkstatt Gespr\u00e4che Gerson Fehrenbach, ein Bildhauerleben, Edition Bernd L. Richter, distributed by Artcolor-Verlag, Berlin, 1992.<\/p>\n

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Reproduced in the catalogue raisonn\u00e9: Herausgegeben von der Stiftung f\u00fcr Bildhauerei, Gerson Fehrenbach \u2013 Skulptur und Zeichnung, Berlin, 2000, no. 121, p. 65.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GERSON FEHRENBACH<\/h4>\n

(1932, Villingen, Black Forest, Germany \u2013 2004)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Oepilzkopfstele V – Composition V<\/em><\/h4>\n

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Circa 1963<\/p>\n

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Signed bronze<\/p>\n

Cast in 1970<\/p>\n

N\u00b01\/5<\/p>\n

Foundry stamp H. NOACK BERLIN<\/p>\n

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Height : 121.5 cm
\nLength : 55 cm
\nDepth : 45 cm<\/p>\n

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Reproduced in the catalogue raisonn\u00e9:\u00a0 Herausgegeben von der Stiftung fur Bildhauerei, Gerson Fehrenbach-\u00a0 Skulptur und zeichnung<\/em>, Berlin, 2000, n\u00b0121, page 65<\/p>\n

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