GRÄSEL, FRIEDRICH
1927 Bochum–2013 Osnabrück

Title: Idol I.
Date: 1966.
Technique: Stoneware, salt-glazed.
Measurement: 81 x 56 x 24 cm .
Notation: Monogrammed and dated on the upper right of the standpipe: F.G. 66. Additionally inscribed on the standpipe, verso upper left: B. / XII.


The work is listed on the artist’s official website under cat. rais. no. 173

(www.katalog.friedrich-graesel.de).



VAN HAM Art Estate has represented the artistic estate of Friedrich Gräsel since 2015



Provenance:
- - Estate Friedrich Gräsel


Exhibition:
- Kornelimünster, 2006

- Keramion Foundation, Frechen 2023/24


Literature:
- Ziebarth, Anja (ed.): Friedrich Gräsel, Cologne 2007. With a catalogue raisonné on DVD, Cologne 2007, cat. rais. no. 173

- Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, City of Marl (ed.): Friedrich Gräsel. Ceramic Sculptures. Retrospective, Marl 1984, cat. no. 94, ill.

- Exhibition catalogue: Friedrich Gräsel. Keramik & Industrie. Keramion Foundation, Frechen, 2023, p. 47, ill.



Influenced by periods of work within ceramic production facilities — notably in Frechen between 1964 and 1966, as well as in the Westerwald region — Friedrich Gräsel’s objects from the mid-1960s onwards are characterised by an interplay between sign-like, industrial formal progression and monochrome, smooth surfaces, exemplified by the ceramic pipes in Idol 1. In 1971, the specialist museum Keramion for contemporary ceramics was founded in Frechen by the stoneware manufacturer Gottfried Cremer. In 2024, the museum presented a retrospective dedicated to Friedrich Gräsel.



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