Meet Hans Krause (Apr, 1956)
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Issue: Apr, 1956
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He kinda looks like the love child of Hugh Grant and John Kerry.
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Meet Hans Krause
His pocket-size sculptures are soothing to handle, sweet-scented and habit-forming.
ONE PATH to serenity, say the Buddhists, is through contemplating certain objects: the sky, a tree, a design. Not relying on sight alone, the Chinese have long used hand stones—small objects combining form and smoothness in a way that makes them delicious to handle.
Hans Krause, a German sculptor living in the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, has revived the hand stone. Playing with his dactylforms (Greek daktylos means finger) not only replaces habits like smoking but can produce calmness even in extremely disturbed mental patients. While admitting their value as medicine, sculptor Krause insists that his pocket sculptures are primarily works of art. Each is an individual form in polished Savina wood, a rare Mediterranean material that takes a thousand years to grow and yields an aromatic scent when warmed in the hand.
Is that Roger Daltrey?
Comment by Mike — January 8, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
Looks like Roger Daltrey crossed with Ted Danson.
By the way, was the “People Who Do Things” feature as good as the “Objects That Exist” section?
Comment by rsterling78 — January 9, 2009 @ 1:57 am
I didn’t notice the note before but I do see a slight “Hugh Grant and John Kerry”
Comment by Mike — January 9, 2009 @ 9:23 am
Hmm, I’m seeing Christopher Walken and Boris Karloff
Comment by sweavo — January 9, 2009 @ 9:24 am
I came here to suggest Roger Daltrey and Christopher Walken.
Comment by Charlene — January 9, 2009 @ 9:58 am
It also sounds like such a nazi name
Comment by Al Bear — January 9, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Looks more like Lurch from the Addams Family.
Rick
Comment by Rick — January 9, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
You can tell he’s a real artist cause he looks so serious and he wears a cravat.
Comment by slim — January 9, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
slim: Doesn’t that just make him German?
Comment by Charlie — January 9, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
I can’t wait for the “People Who Do Nothing” feature.
Comment by Sean — January 9, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
“Serenity now!”
Comment by Dave — March 31, 2009 @ 3:06 am