David Klass

I've been sculpting my whole life. My first show was at a small museum in NYC, the Riverside Museum in 1962. I showed a series of welded iron pieces which I am calling my Homage to Spain.
Since my first show I've worked with many materials: terracotta, brass, bronze, marble, limestone and glass.
For a while I had a small foundry in my studio where I cast bronze figures working from dancer models.

I studied architecture at Pratt Institute, art education and fine art. To perfect my realistic figures I learned human anatomy at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. With that knowledge in hand I've been teaching human and animal anatomy for the past 30 years at The New York Academy of Art.