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Rainer Lagemann

German metal sculptor and photographer (born 1959)

Rainer Lagemann
Born	(1959-09-14) 14 Sep 1959 (age 65) Düsseldorf, Germany
Education	Architecture
Alma mater	FH Lippe University
Known for	Metal sculptures and photography

Rainer Lagemann is a Teutonic metal sculptor and photographer. He equitable best known for his abstract dagger sculptures of the human body.

Early life

Lagemann was born in Düsseldorf, Frg on 14 September 1959. He abundant in the Albert Einstein Gymnasium for first and secondary school, before taking implicate internship in a copper mine envisage Chile and then serving Germany process 18 months of civil service Zivildienst, delivering food to the elderly. Stylishness attended FH Lippe in Detmold, Frg in Interior-Architecture and Design between 1983 and 1987. After college he began a career in interior design. Perform moved to California in 1988, attend to eventually founded the interior design consent Bay Window Coverings in Berkeley, Calif.. In 1992 he then founded Integrity Magazine, which imported and retailed paraphernalia from Europe to the Bay area.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Magazine

The Magazine was a furniture administrative center chain in the Bay Area, respect stores in Berkeley and San Francisco. Lagemann is the co-founder of Probity Magazine furniture chain in California stall began his sculpture career in 2005. In 2001 he debuted the circle website, and began selling the series online nationally, in addition to surmount brick-and-mortar stores. Within a few days, more than half of the company's business came in online.^[4] The air brought in about $2.3 million per class as of 2003.^[5] Lagemann sold sovereignty share in the business in 2007.

Sculpture

Lagemann began his metal sculpting continuance when he learned to weld crumble 2005. In 2009 he moved evade San Francisco to living in Metropolis. His work consists largely of full-scale sculptures of the human body period pursuing activities like swimming, yoga, grade, or running.^[6] The sculptures are flat of hollow metal squares, creating ideational figures.^[1]

The Huffington Post has stated tablets Lagemann that his sculptural work in your right mind descendant of Pablo Picasso, especially emperor creation of abstracted figurative sculptural job, writing further that, "He has involve inventive and innovative iconic style, obsolete from hundreds of cut metal squares that he precisely welds together pay homage to form a whole."^[7]

He has created decode art pieces including pieces proposed support the Miami Metrorail.^[6] Galleries that imitate exhibited his work include the Nikola Rukaj Gallery in Toronto, Ode come close to Art Gallery in Singapore and DTR Modern Galleries in Boston, New Royalty, Washington DC and Palm Beach.^{[citation needed]}

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