(Vienna 1921–2010)
“Liegender Mann”, bronze, green patina, 1964, monogrammed P., numbered 4/6, 31 x 121 x 37 cm, (K)

One cast catalogued and illustrated:
Josef Pillhofer, Das plastische Werk, exhibited 20 Oct.-25 Nov. 1989, Galerie Norbert Blaeser, Düsseldorf, cat.11

Pillhofer. Das Ideal der Proportion, Künstlerhaus Vienna 2011, page 84, page 115 (ill.)

Provenance:
Private Ownership, Vienna

…The more self-contained a sculpture, the more partnership, or better, polarity, it offers, in which the viewer themselves can be involved on a complex level. Pillhofer’s sculptures, as shown here, belong to the “polar” category, in which any appreciation is bound up with the gentle encroachment of the self-image. Several of the underlying concepts behind Pillhofer’s sculpture lead thoughtful viewers, and those with a historical perspective, deep into the classics, especially “classic modernity”, through to Maillol and Matisse, and should be completely understood as both being within, and stemming from, the development of the fine arts since 1945. Pillhofer’s art is most deeply steeped in the philosophical situation and artistic point of departure which were the consequence of the revolutions of Cubism and the Abstraction to which this led…
Prof. Dr. Leopold Rosenmayr, member of Austria’s Academy of Sciences, Vienna – from the foreword to the Galerie Norbert Blaeser catalogue.