Sculpture anthropomorphe (Anthropomorphic sculpture)

After his training at the Fine Arts in Munich and Liège in the 1960s, Kristian Klepsch set up a hollow glass engraving workshop in the Bavarian Forest in 1972. Limited by the curve of these shapes, he then directed his activity towards engraving blocks of solid glass, whose walls decorated with patterns favor prisms and representations in perspective. However, the high cost of this production of unique pieces encouraged him to develop in 1982, in Neuzeug, Austria, a technique of glass poured into molds, capable of reproducing in small series his ornamental ambitions then revealed through small windows individually carved from the blocks. Presented in 1987 in the artist's exhibition organized by the Galerie d'Amon, in Paris, this small sculpture could have been created between 1982 and 1985, during the first years of development of its technology. Less important than the pieces produced subsequently, it only presents the body of a man on the cross.