Picture "Rape Fields on the Steep Bank / Baltic Sea" (2023) (Unique piece)
Picture "Rape Fields on the Steep Bank / Baltic Sea" (2023) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 40 x 120 cm
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Picture "Rape Fields on the Steep Bank / Baltic Sea" (2023) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2023. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 40 x 120 cm as shown.
About Stefan Dobritz
Stefan Dobritz is fascinated by the landscape of northern Germany with its bright yellow canola fields, the rugged coastline with its foamy waves and the illuminated harbour views.
Born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1965, the artist was profoundly influenced and inspired by his encounter with the painter Jürgen Runge (1929-92). As a plein air painter, he usually creates his works on-site, working exclusively with the palette knife. This painting technique allows him to work impulsively as well as to elaborate details conscientiously.
With the depiction of the charming effects of light and shadow, the well-proportioned picture details as well as his search for complementary intensive colour compositions, Dobritz impressively works out the "beauty of the special moment" which is inherent in every motif. With his sometimes reduced and striking, but always calm visual language, the artist succeeds in focussing the viewer's thoughts on moods and their romantic worlds of experience.
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.