Picture "Surf" (2025) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "Surf" (2025) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 45 x 125 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Surf" (2025) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2025, signed by hand. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Stretcher frame size 40 x 120 cm (h/w). Framed in natural-coloured solid wood shadow gap frame. Size 45 x 125 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Peter Witt
The landscape painter Peter Witt was born in 1966 in Itzehoe and grew up in Lübeck, Germany. After graduating from high school and serving in the German army, he decided to study physics in 1986. But in the same year, together with his childhood friend Stefan Dobritz, he met the painter Jürgen Runge. Rünge, who was a student of Oskar Kokoschka, taught Dobritz and Witt oil painting with the palette knife technique.
The first exhibition took place in the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck as early as 1988, followed by annual summer exhibitions on the island of Sylt from 1991 and the opening of their gallery in the gatehouse of Gut Hasselburg in 1994 – always together with Stefan Dobritz. Today Witt and Dobritz run a gallery in Westerland.
Peter Witt prefers to paint "en plein air" in the open air if the subject and the weather permits. That is what makes his interpretations come alive and comprehensible to everyone. This impression is further enhanced by the palette knife technique he uses. In particular, he sometimes thickly applies colours and deliberately emphasises light effects, which creates an amazing three-dimensionality.
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.