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Then I cleaned them very good with TSP cleaner since you can’t really sand the intricate pieces. Lay out the top leaves, swinging pendulum and pinecones on your clean tarp. The electrical one had a light sensor on it and, get this, was made in Korea. I finally found one small vintage mechanical clock ($40) made in Germany and one very large electrical clock ($25) on craigslist.

I all of a sudden was obsessed with finding a cheap cuckoo clock that I could paint. Materials needed to paint a white cuckoo clockīut the seed was planted in my design brain and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. He told me that I had no clue how expensive that clock was and that he would be really mad at me if I would ruin it with paint. I told my father that I was itching to spray paint the clock white. DIY painted white cuckoo clockĭon’t be scared, I didn’t paint this beautiful high quality wooden cuckoo clock that my parents bought fo me. I figured it was broken…but haha no such luck. Stefan Strumbel bricht Klischees Stefan Strumbel spielt in seinen Arbeiten mit Klischees, bricht mit traditionellen Symbolen und stellt ihnen Provokantes gegenüber. One of my cats had jumped at the cuckoo bird at the 2 o’clock chirp (I know that because it was stopped at 2). Stefan Strumbel Kuckucksuhr Siebdruck auf säurefreiem Papier (250g/m) 40 × 60cm limitiert auf 50 signiert und nummeriert AUSVERKAUFT. One day I returned home to find the clock lying on the floor. English Français Stefan Strumbel Kuckucksuhr. Shop at our store and also enjoy the best in daily editorial content. But since I really miss my family and I have to admit that it reminds me of Germany, I hung it up. Stefan Strumbel - The leading online destination for mens contemporary fashion and streetwear. Especially since I hate being guilted and forced into any design decisions. I was less than thrilled to display my brown carved clock in the living room. So a couple of years ago, my parents thought it would be very funny to send me a cuckoo clock to the US and guilt me into hanging it up. They reminded me of old people’s traditional style or (yes, I said it) American tourists. White cuckoo clocks, not so much, right?Īs a German citizen and growing up in Germany I hated cuckoo clocks.

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Pictures courtesy of Stefan Strumbel, Badische Zeitung, BW-Jetzt.įor all the latest art news, sign up for free to My Widewalls today.I guess to most non-Germans, brown wooden cuckoo clocks represent an example of what should be in a typical German home along with carved wood furniture and beer mugs. Stefan Strumbel - Kuckucksuhr for Karl Lagerfeld

We believe that Strumbel’s art is more than capable to pervade the international contemporary art market and will follow his development very closely. Despite the fact that leading figures such as Karl Lagerfeld, Selim Varol and Sophie Steinmeyer are collectors of his art. His popularity is mainly limited to the confines of his home country. Nevertheless, Stefan Strumbel is not as well known, as he should be. The result is never before seen art objects that found their way to the homes of several leading German collectors. Stefan Strumbel’s work is therefore in constant dispute with the paradigm of his rural upbringing and a very modern perception of contemporary urban art. By replacing traditional ornaments with motives depicting pornography, aggression and death he creates pop-art-like pieces that stand for the change in our value system. Furthermore the artist utilizes religious objects like the crucifix and adds stylistic elements from the urban and street –art world. Strumbel abstracts this classical wall clock and mixes it with bright colors, contemporary objects and urban art ideas. The “Kuckucksuhr” he most frequently uses originates from this region.

The objects he chooses to re-design are traditional objects from the Black Forest region in Germany. The deep relationship to his birthplace is also expressed in his art. Stefan Strumbel, the Offenburg born and raised contemporary artist still works from his hometown. Stefan Strumbel explains his design process (in German) Prerequisite to understanding what the guy is saying: German language skills 101. Watch the Video of Stefan Strumbel explaining his creative design process. With a little luck, buyers of Monopol magazine have the chance to come into possession of a signed edition of 50 with collectors value. Collectors have the special motivation to purchase this month’s Monopol issue because 50 art prints are signed. An art print of the “Kuckucksuhr” is included in this month’s edition of the art magazine Monopol. German contemporary artist Stefan Strumbel created one of his signature “Kuckucksuhren” for the Baden Wuerttemberg campaign “Heimat Großer Kunst”.

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