Couple, 1990

Sculpture made of clay/terracotta with raki brad, unique piece

Dimensions: 54 x 20 x 6 cm

Hans-Peter Mader, born in 1951, is a German sculptor and sculpteur who is best known for his ceramic works.

known for his ceramic works.

Since 1982 he has been a self-employed ceramist and sculptor, a member of the BBK Thuringia and has participated in more than 150 exhibitions in Germany and abroad. His works can be found in public spaces as art on buildings, in public institutions and museums as well as with private collectors.

Hans-Peter Mader's formal language is unmistakable: built-up sculptures, highly aspiring, torsos with brittle cracks and stone-like surfaces as well as objects with inlays and engobe painting.

All the sculptures are 100% handmade, each one unique, because the artist did everything himself, from mixing the clay to assembling. His figures grow out of a basic cubic form, a clay cylinder, into towering stelae with strongly cracked, modelled or wood-beaten and scratched surfaces, so that a graphic element is added to the expansion of space.

Another important design element for him was the INTARSIEN technique with porcelain inlays and coloured engobes. This type of design offers the possibility of creating a dialogue between the natural surface and designed geometric decorations. With the sculptures in RAKU technique, the experimental moment remained decisive for Hans-Peter Mader. He used the special aesthetics of free-banding with traces of gunshot and craquelé patterns as well as a volcanic earth-crusted colourfulness and structure to complete his independent forms.