About the Artist
Herbert Mehler gained his first artistic experience with his father, the wood sculptor Franz Mehler. Following his training as a sculptor, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1972 to 1976. Together with his wife, the painter and sculptor Sonja Edle von Hoeßle, he founded the Riedenheim Project in 2000 on an old farm in Riedenheim.
Herbert Mehler
Cipresso (Gold Edition)
2011
Leaf gilded with 24 karat pure gold
150 x 43 x 43 cm