HÖDICKE, KARL HORST
1938 Nuremberg - 2024 Berlin

Title: Kasperle.
Date: 1987.
Technique: Bronze, green patinated.
Measurement: 182 x 46 x 50cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and numbered on the plinth at the back left: HÖDICKE 87 1/6.
Foundry Mark: Below this, the foundry mark on the outer edge: H.NOACK BERLIN. Number: 1/6.


Provenance:
- Gallery Gmyrek, Düsseldorf
- Neher Gallery, Essen
- Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous owner in 2001)
- Selbstständige Stiftung in der Betreuung des Deutschen Stiftungszentrums, Essen

Exhibitions:
- Landesgirokasse, Stuttgart 1993
- Neher Gallery, Essen 2000

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. The Language of Modern Images, German Art after 1945, Essen 1993, p. 40f, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Classical Modernism - Contemporary Art, A Comparison, Galerie Neher, Essen 2000, p. 23, ill.


- Impressive large format in the artist's pictorial language typical of the 1980s
- In contrast to the abstract painting that dominated at the time, Hödicke was one of the pioneering representatives of New Figuration in German post-war art
- Offered on the international auction market for the first time.