Parze
Parze is a sculpture by German artist Edwin Scharff, located in Neu-Ulm, the sculptor’s birthplace. The sculptor Edwin Scharff was born there in 1887.
His work follows figuration and draws on classical influence while seeking a contemporary, universal human image. The sculpture reflects this figurative artistic direction.
Scharff studied at Munich’s Kunstgewerbeschule and later at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. He also began his career as a painter.
A period in Paris brought contact with the work of Aristide Maillol and Auguste Rodin. Those two artists influenced his sculptural vision.
After serving and being wounded in the First World War, Scharff became a sculpture professor in Berlin. The Nazi regime classified him as a degenerate artist.
Despite that prohibition, he continued creating art secretly and later resumed teaching in Hamburg after the war. Parze connects Neu-Ulm with Scharff’s classical, figurative approach.
His sculptures sought a human figure that could speak beyond a single historical moment. This sculpture presents Scharff’s universal human aim.
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Image: Klaus-Dieter Keller, GermanyPublic domain
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