Limitation: 500 (numbered, signed)
Dimensions: 44 x 20 x 18 cm (h/w/d)
Weight: 3,5 kg

Edition in bronze, cast in the lost wax process, chased by hand and patinated.

Ernst Völkl (1928 - 2009)

In 1942, at the age of barely 14, Ernst Völkl began an apprenticeship as a wood and stone sculptor in his native Mannheim, at the same time taking the opportunity to receive additional instruction from Carl Trummer at the Mannheim Free Academy. The consequences of the war made him a sought-after specialist: in 1945, now 17 years old, he worked intensively in his home region on the restoration of damaged monuments and churches and was thus entrusted with tasks that a sculptor of his age would hardly have been trusted with at other times. They also recommended him during the period of reconstruction. Thus - temporarily for the archiepiscopal building office in Heidelberg - numerous high reliefs and full sculptures were created at the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 1950s.

From 1953 to 1972 Völkl, who had been a master sculptor since 1957, worked as an independent stone sculptor. With the following change into the free-lance activity for considerable porcelain manufactories and bronze foundries he opened himself the possibility to work also with other materials. Since then, in addition to designs and models for vases, bowls and services, he has created numerous figurative sculptures in bronze, with animal representations playing a special role. Even as a young sculptor, Völkl had attended lectures not only in anatomy but also in zoology as a guest student. The knowledge he had acquired in this way now stood him in good stead: it was precisely as an "animalist" of the greatest representational accuracy that Völkl proved himself to be an artist of distinction.