“I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.”
A pencil drawing of “Jüngling mit Falken” - “The Young Man with the Falcon” statue, made in 1943 by German sculptor Johannes Ernst Born (1884 - 1958).
A perfect example of German Neoclassicism, depicts a warrior, heroic, standing naked, his right arm raised with a falcon resting with its claws clutching his hand.
Exhibited at the 7th German Grand Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst (German House of Art) in Munich.
This statue is focused around proportion, poise, and the idealized perfection of the human body. It’s aesthetic attitude is based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity, which invokes harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism.
The practice of hunting with a conditioned falcon bird is called falconry and a person who flies a falcon is called a falconer. Evidence suggests that the art of falconry may have begun in Mesopotamia, with the earliest accounts dating to around 2,000 BC.