Stephan Balkenhol (슈테판 발켄홀) is certainly one of the internationally most famous German artists alongside Gerhard Richter or Georg Baselitz. Since the 1980s, these artists have been searching for new ways of formulating everyday material for their works. Since about 1982, the human figure and the head, which are directly cut out of the block of wood, have shaped the work of Stephan Balkenhol. Very often the man in black business trousers and white shirt. An archetype as he can be found worldwide from Hong Kong to New York and Shanghai. Balkenhol uses traditional tools to work the wood, which he perceives as a living substance. The Unicorn has been an object of art for centuries. As an archetype, the man in the white shirt is as important in Balkenhol’s work as the equally famous works of art “Naked Man”, “Grote man, kleine man” in Amsterdam or the Portraits de SS.AA.RR. Le Grand-Duc Jean et La Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte from 2006. From October 22, 2020, to February 28, 2021, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg is showing a comprehensive exhibition of Stephan Balkenhol’s work, which was created in close collaboration with the artist. FRANK FLUEGEL GALERIE presents various bronze sculptures for this occasion.