Picture "Rape at Düstnishy" (Unique piece)
Picture "Rape at Düstnishy" (Unique piece)
Quick info
unique piece | signed | aquarelle on handmade paper | framed | size 66 x 79.5 cm
Detailed description
Picture "Rape at Düstnishy" (Unique piece)
Aquarelle on handmade paper. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 41.5 x 55.5 cm. Size in frame 66 x 79.5 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Klaus Fußmann
The painter and graphic artist Klaus Fußmann, born in 1938, belongs to the first group of contemporary artists in Germany. He made a name for himself with his landscape paintings, still lifes and flowers that impress with their blaze of colours and expressive forms that almost lean towards the abstract. He offers a subjective, emotional view on nature, for which he has to exaggerate: "If it's accurate, it's incredibly boring."
His oeuvre includes impasto oil paintings, but also etchings, lithographs, linoleum prints and watercolours. In his paintings, Klaus Fußmann rediscovers the shape of flowers and landscapes – just like in perfunctory dreams in which clear structures and outlines merge, he models a literal floral frenzy and uses the splendour of colours to do so: "No ink is as blue as the delphinium and no fire as red as the geranium."
The city of Gelting close to the Baltic Sea is the adopted home of the artists and offers him enough inspiration for motifs, which he captures on paper in all their vividness. His gouaches are entirely produced according to the tradition of Emil Nolde and Lovis Corinth, whereby the stems or stamens of the flowers are completely lost in the sea of blossoms in Fußmann's massive formal language.
Many renowned art houses exhibit his works. In 1996 for example, Fußmann was the first artist to be allowed to exhibit in the German Chancellery in Bonn. From 1974 to 2005, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Painting with glazing watercolours, that are characterised by their transparency, which let deeper layers and painting surfaces shine through.
Often the paper surface is omitted. This contributes significantly to the effect of the work. The aquarelle or watercolour painting requires skilful use of colour, as it dries quickly and corrections are almost impossible.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.