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Horst Antes

Heppenheim 1936 – lives in Castellina, Chianti

Four eyes for Urs. Circa 1964

Emulsion paint on wood, two-part, and door hinge. 93,5 × 26 × 21,5 cm (36 ¾ × 10 ¼ × 8 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Horst Antes. Four eyes for Urs. Circa 1964.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 33,700

 

- 44,900

Sold for:

33,020 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Modern Art, Friday, 06.06.2025

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Emulsion paint on wood, two-part, and door hinge. 93,5 × 26 × 21,5 cm (36 ¾ × 10 ¼ × 8 ½ in.). Unique work.

In his ‘Sturm und Drang’ years, Horst Antes was very close friends with the writer, essayist and feuilletonist Dieter Hoffmann, who was born in Dresden and moved to West Germany in the 1950s. Hoffmann, who was in close, friendly contact with the Dresden painter aristocracy Lachnit, Jüchser, Glöckner, Hassebrauk - later joined by Leipzig's Volker Stelzmann - often acted as a mediator between literature and the visual arts with his journalistic work.

Hoffmann married in 1964, the same year his son Urs was born, and Antes gave the sculpture to the couple as a gift for their wedding and the birth of their son.

As was the alternative impetus at the time, the artist made the figure solely from loose pieces of found wood and a metal door hinge. The two-part work, created in Switzerland, was constructed with dowels for easy assembly. ‘Four eyes for Urs‘ is an absolute solitaire within Horst Antes’ oeuvre: never again, neither before nor since, has the artist created a unique sculptural piece out of wood. .

Formerly Dieter Hoffmann, Geiselwind (until 2007)

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