Picture "Dockville" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Dockville" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 160 x 120 cm
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Picture "Dockville" (2018) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2018. Signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 160 x 120 cm as shown.
About Birgit Klerch
Birgit Clerch, born in 1964, studied fine arts at the HfbK Hamburg from 2003 to 2008 with Prof. Werner Büttner and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a master student of Prof. Markus Lüpertz. The training with these two German masters have significantly influenced her work, but also encouraged her to go her own stylistic way.
Central themes in the work of the German painter Birgit Clerch are landscapes, still lifes and urban life with its protagonists. Characteristic of the serial work process is a balancing act between a realistic representation and a working method that almost dissolves into non-objectivity.
Scenes initially perceived as contemplative turn out to be charged with content and suspense. Clerch works primarily with oil on canvas. She uses digital media, her own and found photos as a starting point and then collages them in the final painting process to a completely new composition.
Works by the painter are in private and public collections, including the Federal Ministry for Environmental Protection in Berlin.
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.