Picture "Prague, Charles Bridge" (1960s), framed
Picture "Prague, Charles Bridge" (1960s), framed
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limited, 600 copies | reproduction, collotype on cardboard | framed | passe-partout | glazed | size 74 x 91 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Prague, Charles Bridge" (1960s), framed
Original collotype from the 1960s, produced in the historic Max Jaffé press, after the painting from the National Gallery, Prague. Printed in up to 12 colours on heavy collotype board. Limited edition of 600 copies. Sheet size 78.5 x 59.5 cm. Framed in an exclusive solid wood frame "Prague Gold". With bevel cut passe-partout, dustproof glazed. Framed size 74 x 91 cm.
About Oskar Kokoschka
1886-1980
O.K. – those initials were of crucial importance for the art development of the 20th-century. His style of painting and drawing was trend-setting.
As a painter, graphic artist and writer, Oskar Kokoschka was an important pioneer of Expressionism. He studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and was influenced by the art of Vincent van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler and the artists of the Vienna Secession such as Gustav Klimt. Deemed his art as degenerate by the Nazis, Kokoschka fled to Prague and later lived in exile in London.
The artist achieved particular fame through his portraits and city views. In his flower paintings, Kokoschka did not simply copy nature but constructed a new, artistic reality without completely abstracting the subject of the picture. In 1953 he founded the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, which he called the "School of Vision".
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.
Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, which found its precursor in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in the late 19th century. The Expressionists attempted to advance to the primal elements of painting. With vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas and with the emphasis on the line and the resulting targeted suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke" (The Bridge): Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among the sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.