Picture "Untitled, (WV 20, Lw 40)" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Picture "Untitled, (WV 20, Lw 40)" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
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original painting | signed | acrylic on canvas | on stretcher frame | size 50 x 40 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Untitled, (WV 20, Lw 40)" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Original painting 2020, signed. Acrylic on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Size 50 x 40 cm (h/w).
About Gerhard Langenfeld
The conceptual artist Gerhard Langenfeld, who was born in Saulgau, Germany, in 1955, explores the colour black in all its glory. Langenfeld, who studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart under Prof. Rudolf Haegele and Prof. Peter Grau, discovers this powerful colour in its sensual effects, its diverse tone qualities and the deep spatial qualities that result from it. Especially the effects and associations of the colour black are more contradictory than those of any other colour. A strict structure, a monochromatic choice of colours and a concentration on minimalist expressive possibilities are characteristic of his works. During the painting process, colour, light and space are closely interrelated. Through reflecting and absorbing light conditions, diverse pictorial spatialities are created on the black ground. Those emphasise the special effect and power emanating from the contrasting colour black.
Since 1983, Gerhard Langenfeld has been represented at numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 1998 he joined the Deutscher Künstlerbund and since 2004 he is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg e.V.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.