Picture "In books we never find anything but ourselves..." (2012) - after Thomas Mann, unframed
Picture "In books we never find anything but ourselves..." (2012) - after Thomas Mann, unframed
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limited, 60 copies | numbered | signed | etching | unframed | size 49 x 39 cm
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Picture "In books we never find anything but ourselves..." (2012) - after Thomas Mann, unframed
With Schiefer's critical-ironic drawing style and his love of mischievous detail, there is always something new for the viewer to discover. Such as with this graphic: "In books, we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius." (Quote Thomas Mann)
Etching 2012. 60 copies limited edition, numbered and signed. Unframed. Motif size 25 x 15.8 cm. Sheet size 49 x 39 cm.
About Welf Schiefer
Welf Schiefer, born in 1980, began his artistic career with street art before taking up his graphic design studies at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2003. He studied the printing techniques of lithography, serigraphy, linocut and etching under Bernd Frank (poster design) and Paul Kunofski. Schiefer names Max Ernst, George Grosz and Otto Dix as his role models.
With his critical-ironic drawing style and his love of mischievous detail, there is always something new for the viewer to discover. He lives and works as a freelance artist – with a focus on etching – in Hanover.
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.