Sonnenblatt I. 1968.
Bronze, partly polished and partly with brown patina.
With the signature on the plinth. One of 7 copies mentioned in the catalogue raisonnné. 75 x 62 x 30 cm (29.5 x 24.4 x 11.8 in).
Cast by H. Noack, Berlin (with the foundry mark on the reverse side of the plinth).
• In “Sonnenblatt” (Sun Leaf), the artist conveys the motion motif in clear forms and enlivens it through the radiant surface.
• Bernhard Heiliger is one of the most influential innovators in German sculpture.
• In 1960, he began to free his bronze sculptures from the ground, allowing them to float and fill the space.
• Another copy is in the Royal Collection, Huis den Bosch, The Hague.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Germany (acquired from the artist in 1969)
Private collection Rhineland-Palatinate (2005, Galerie Thomas).

EXHIBITION: Bernhard Heiliger. 19 neue Sculpturen, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, April 3–end of August 1970, cat. no. 7 (illustrated) (probably a different copy).
Bernhard Heiliger, Gallerie Il Canale, Venice, July 11–31, 1970, cat. no. 7 (illustrated) (probably a different copy)
Bernhard Heiliger. 19 neue Skulpturen, Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf, September 7–October 20, 1971, cat. no. 7 (illustrated on the title page) (probably a different copy).
Bernhard Heiliger. Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, October–November 1971, cat. no. 7 (illustrated in color on the title page of the leaflet) (probably a different copy)
Bernhard Heiliger. Neue Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Bremer, Berlin, March 12–April 30, 1973, cat. no. 1 (illustrated on the title page) (probably a different copy).

LITERATURE: Marc Wellmann, Bernhard Heiliger 1915-1995. Monograph and catalogue raisonné, Künzelsau 2005, catalogue raisonné no. 313.
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Siegfried Salzmann / Lothar Romain, Bernhard Heiliger, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1989, p. 82, fig. 47 (different copy).