STOOLS BY FRITZ BAUMANN

The artistic work of the trained carpenter and film-director Fritz Baumann is expressed in award-winning films and unique works in wood.

His current collection unites archaic forms with a modern interpretation of the oldest furniture of mankind. The strength of the material makes the encounter with each piece a sensual experience.

Fritz Baumann's sculptured seats are expressive studies of nature. His stools and benches are created in a reduced style showing Japanese influence. Fritz Baumann's favourite wood is oak. He always uses green, uncured tree trunks, which he inspects to find the optimal form of the stool, which he then extracts with the chainsaw.

Baumann brings the pieces in their rough form to his workshop in the country outside Munich for a long drying process, where the wood looses its tension, can split and bend to find it's very own form. These irregularities are just what make these objects unique.

Also spalted wood formed by fungus, gives a special aura. Baumann uses rust water to colour some of the stools black and uses hydrogen peroxide to bleach others. He also emphasises the grain with a white lime wash. As a contrast to the rough surfaces of the sides, the seats are planed completely smooth. If a split occurs while drying he fixes it with dovetails. This welcome "imperfection" becomes a special feature.

The stool is like a favourite piece, which is polished with use. Fritz Baumann's unique pieces look as if they have experienced a lot – and that they certainly have.

 

GALLERIES

GALERIE HILDE LEISS
Grosser Burstah 36
20457 Hamburg
040 - 36 55 74
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URS VON UNGER
Kleines Landhaus
Dorfstrasse 71
CH-3792 Saanen/Gstaad
+41 (0)33 744 44 11
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NYHUES TEMPORARY ART GALLERY
Arkaden
Ludgeristraße 100
48143 Münster
0251 - 144 944 0
muenster@nyhues.de
www.nyhues.de

STILWERK
Erdgeschoss E-5
Kantstraße 17
10623 Berlin
030 30831171
030 315150

 

 

 

 

 

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