Breathing Easy
By Lawrence Braun, Installed 2006
Working in cast bronze, stainless steel and resin, sculptor, Larry Braun has focused most of his artwork over the past three decades on subjects from the world of auto sports. In his sculpture, he blends his enthusiasm for fast, beautiful, significant automobiles with his sensitivity for the human figure and his interest in interpreting man’s intimate relationship with technology. His style is best described as a blending of realism and impressionism; combining precisely rendered mechanical elements with fluid and dynamic organic forms.
Raised near Denver, Colorado Larry credits his parents, architect, Robert Braun and Helen, with cultivating an early appreciation of the arts and inspiring a healthy respect
for hard work, craftsman-ship and aesthetics. He trained as a sculptor through two years of art study at Colorado State University and apprenticeships in Florida and Colorado.In 1972 he established his own studio in the burgeoning arts community of Loveland, Colorado and began working in earnest on his own sculpture. During this early period, Larry worked primarily with wildlife subjects, but, his interest in sports and racing cars led him to acquire a rare Glöckler-Porsche racer. Research into this car and early Porsche history led eventually to his first auto sport inspired piece, Trackside Diagnosis, in 1978. Soon, the majority of Brauns professional efforts were dedicated to sculpture based on auto sports subjects.
He continues to produce his sculpture in Loveland where his studio and gallery occupy a century old, historic, property that once served as the public hospital. Loveland is widely
recognized for its artists, art foundries and public sculpture.
