Picture "Towards the Top", framed
Picture "Towards the Top", framed
Quick info
limited, 199 copies | signed | reproduction, Giclée print on handmade paper | solid wood frame | passe-partout | glazed | size 49.2 x 42.7 cm
Delivery time: Immediately deliverable
Detailed description
Picture "Towards the Top", framed
The Mainzelmännchen learned to walk on the drawing board: On so-called cels, painted foils for foregrounds and backgrounds.
To celebrate their 50th stage anniversary in April 2013, we are offering the limited reproduction of this cel - which their inventor Wolf Gerlach drew for the production - as a colourful Giclée print on 308g Hahnemühlen handmade paper. The colours of the original are shown to their best advantage thanks to the high resolution and excellent paper quality.
"Towards the Top": Two Mainzelmännchen on their way to dizzy heights.
Giclée print on handmade paper. Limited edition 199 copies, signed. Sheet size 34 x 27.5 cm. Framed in a sophisticated solid wood frame in Prague silver with bevel cut passe-partout, dustproof glazed. Size 49.2 x 42.7 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
Customer reviews
Frame variant: framed
Prompte Lieferung, sehr gute Verpackung.
Frame variant: framed
Sehr schönes Bild, hochwertig verarbeitet. Leider ist die Farbe der Augen etwas inhomogen, stört aber das Gesamtbild nicht.
About Wolf Gerlach
1928-2012 - versatile artist, inventor of the Mainzelmännchen
Born in Pomerania, Germany, in 1928, Wolf Theodor Gerlach spent his youth living on the North Sea island of Langeoog. The technology and equipment of the performing arts seem to have aroused the young man's interest. After an apprenticeship as a film architect, stage and costume designer, he had his first job in Oldenburg, then Braunschweig and Wiesbaden. At the beginning of the 1960s, Gerlach devoted himself to advertising films and in 1963, for the launch of the public-service television broadcaster ZDF, he created the animated station-identity mascots "Mainzelmännchen".
Gerlach, dissatisfied with all the attempts of dedicated dubbing actors to give his characters the right voice, dubbed them himself in the first few years. And just as the distinctive voice and manner of speaking of actor Hans Paetsch heard on fairy tale records enchanted generations of children and their parents from the 1960s onwards, Gerlach spoke his way into the hearts of television viewers with the famous greeting that he invented and crowed: "Gud'n Aaamd" a dialect coloured "Guten Abend" ("good evening"). His mischievous, cheeky and impertinent characters will always be with us.
Wolf Gerlach died in November 2012 at the age of 84.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.