JOACHIM BERTHOLD* (Eisnach 1917 - 1990 Oberaudorf) Three figures coloured lithograph/paper 61,5 x 45,7 cm signed Berthold, numbered 38/50 ESTIMATE °€ 40 - € 80 STARTING PRICE € 40 Joachim Berthold was a German artist and primarily a sculptor. From 1936, he was a student of Wolfgang Wallner at the Cologne Werkschulen and later a master student of Joseph Wackerle at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1943 he was represented with a statuette at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung (Great German Art Exhibition). After a brief career as a sculptor in the early 1940s and participation in the Second World War, Berthold worked in Oberaudorf, Upper Bavaria, after the war until his death. From 1960 onwards, Berthold became known to a wider audience through solo exhibitions, initially in Germany, followed from 1966 onwards by international exhibitions, including in New York, Milan and Vancouver. After Berthold's death, retrospectives were shown at the Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery in Bielefeld (2007) and the Museum Regensburg in Regensburg (2008). Joachim Berthold was the son of the goldsmith Karl Berthold and the painter Maria Schmidt-Kugel. Berthold's wife Gisela Berthold-Sames had also studied at the Cologne Werkschulen; Her collection, featuring numerous designs and sculptures by her husband, is on display in a dedicated gallery building in Oberaudorf. The central theme of Berthold's sculptures - primarily in bronze - is the human form. After expressive beginnings, Berthold's work progressed towards an increasingly abstract form. In sculptures from the 1950s, he largely dispensed with facial features; in later works, even the outlines appear in abstract forms or merge with the background. A strong contrast of round and angular, convex and concave, rough and smooth elements is characteristic of Berthold's formal language. His "Menschenmauern" (human walls) have achieved particular fame. Berthold's works in public spaces include the "Peliansbrunnen" (pelican fountain), former Bavarian State School for the Deaf in Munich, 1954; "Der Schauende", (the watcher) in the Siemens Housing Estate, Munich-Obersendling, 1955; "Die Sitzende" (seated woman), Munich-Moosach, 1958; reliefs at the TSV 1860 München stadium, 1958; the Fish Ball Fountain in Münster, 1962; "Menschenpaar" (human couple) in Erlangen, 1962; the bronze sculpture "Team," Building Authority of the Technical University of Munich, 1966. Bronze sculpture "Bogenschützen" (archers), Munich and Rosenheim, Garching Campus; bronze sculpture "Mauer" (wall), Pasing, Institute for Land Transport, 19??; "Adams Rippe" (Adam's rib) in Erlangen, 1972. Part of Joachim Berthold's written legacy is kept in the German Art Archive at Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg. Further artists and styles: Expressionism, Abstraction, Henry Moore, Man, Body, Joseph Wackerle, Fritz Koenig, Waldemar Grzimek, Gerhard Marcks, Renée Sintenis PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.