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HOLTKAMP Fine Art
Bronze
The art of bronze casting and sculpture (the
'lost wax process' or 'cire perdue' in French) has a long history. Bronze
sculptors have existed in some form for about 5000 years. Whether modelling
functional items, religious icons, animal art or portraits of real people,
bronze sculptors have a long history of modelling commissioned artifacts in
bronze.
Civilizations have always sought to memorialize people
in some manner either in stone, bronze or other durable materials and a
likeness of a person, whether it be a bust or a life size figure, can be a
truly lasting memorial. Gravesite sculptures found at tombs and burial sites
around the world attest to the basic need people have to memorialize their
deceased.
Once people learned to cast life-like statues and
portraits in bronze, the art took on a whole new importance and bronze portrait
sculpture became a watermark of high civilization. Monumental lifesize figures
have historically been given as gifts between leaders and now, at corporate
presentations, bronze sculptures and busts are often offered as a monument to
corporate leaders.
Memorialization at gravesites, and cemeteries
can be achieved, not only by gravestones, but also by a portrait sculpture of a
loved one cast in bronze. Hans Holtkamp's bronze statue of the 'Joys' child in
the cemetery at Saskatoon is a recreation of a marble statue that had been
deteriorating since the early 1920s. Originally memorialized as a marble statue
by an Italian sculptor, the Joys child monument was one of the first likenesses
to be erected at a grave site in western Canada. Cast in bronze, it will now be
a truly lasting memorial.
HOLTKAMP Fine Art
Bronze wishes to make bronze sculptures accessible and affordable to
everyone no matter their status in life. Commissioned hand sculpted cast bronze
sculptures, portraits and funeral cremation urns are a truly personal monument
to represent and celebrate a life lived.
In this day of mass
production, people seek out individually designed and handcrafted art work
that truly represents the lives, beliefs, aspirations and achievements of those
who are memorialized. Hans Holtkamp, artist and sculptor, will create truly
personalized memorial and cremation urns and portraits either from life or from
photographs.
A HOLTKAMP bronze sculpture
can become a source of contemplation not only of the past but of the present
and the future.
Please see Commissioning a Portrait to see how easy it is or
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Bronze to discuss the possibilities. |
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