About The Artist:
Kaspar ’Thomas’ Lenk
Kaspar Thomas ("Thomas") Lenk (Berlin, June 15, 1933 - Schwäbisch Hall, September 15, 2014) was a German sculptor, draftsman and printmaker. Thomas Lenk visited in 1950 for a short time the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, but changed his study for training as a stonemason. From 1952 he made his first sculptures (as he designed, among others, a KZ-Mahnmal, currently on display in the Auschwitz museum) and in 1954...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.