Singing Blackbird
Singing Blackbird, limited Bronze sculpture in two versions.
As a wall-bronze-sculpture on a branch. Edition 99 pieces. Dimensions of the sculpture: Hight 37 x Width 21,5 x Depth 25 cm.
As a standing version without a branch. Edition 99 pieces. Dimensions of the sculpture: Hight 13 x Width 7 x Depth 19 cm.
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The blackbird (Turdus merula) belongs to the thrush family (Turdidae) and is one of Europe’s best-known birds.
Originally the blackbird was a bird of the forest, but in the 19th Century they moved to parks and gardens, penetrating city centres. The song of the blackbird comes very close to the human understanding of music and can be easily replicated in our system of musical notation. For Heinz Tiessen the blackbird was the songbird of Europe.
The clarinet at the beginning of Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier imitates the song of the blackbird.
Real blackbird song was used on the recording of Paul McCartney’s song ‘Blackbird’ in which the blackbird represents an African American woman and racial unrest in American during the 1960s.
