Karl Dennig - Bilder und Bronzemöbel

Leaves, shells, flowers and animals of various species are motifs that can be found in various media and often merge into abstract elements. These motifs testify to a unique, long-developed formal language and thematically reflect observations that the artist made during his numerous travels. Since his youth, Karl Dennig has been constantly on the move, traveling the world and living in different places. His approach is similar to that of an explorer who collects and organizes his impressions, but processes them artistically rather than scientifically.

For example, on a large bronze table there is a jumbo jet, a Boeing 747, which has been a symbol of progress and the connection of continents since its development in the 1960s. For the artist, this motif serves as a starting point for a journey through the history of flora and fauna. Other images show people and various animals, sorted almost encyclopedically by birds, fish, insects and mammals.

The audience encounters similar motifs in his paintings, carpets and works on paper, but there they open up their own enigmatic world in a poetic weightlessness that appears well-composed and creates associations between reality and fantasy.

Karl Heinz Dennig was born in Wilferdingen/Pforzheim in 1939. He began training as an engraver in 1953 and then studied at the Pforzheim factory school. From 1960, Dennig continued his studies for two years at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 1962 he received a visiting professorship at the Kassel factory school. Today Karl Heinz Dennig lives and works in Berlin.

An exhibition on the 1st floor of the Bar Brass