Picture "The Delicate Whites" (2020) (Unique piece)
Picture "The Delicate Whites" (2020) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | white coloured pencil on cardboard | unframed | size 48 x 68 cm
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Picture "The Delicate Whites" (2020) (Unique piece)
White coloured pencil on cardboard, 2020. Signed. Unframed. Motif size/sheet size 48 x 68 cm.
About Josef Hirthammer
The painter, graphic artist, sculptor and photographer Josef Hirthammer, born in Bad Reichenhall, Germany, in 1951, is considered one of the most versatile artists of our time. At the beginning of his artistic career, Hirthammer mainly used random found objects for his sculptures. In the early 1980s, he then created the thematic complexes of "Nature" and "Contemporaries", which he still pursues today and reinterprets over the years.
The Munich-trained artist has had numerous exhibitions nationally and abroad and has been receiving many awards. His works can be found in public collections in Basel, Bamberg and Würth.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
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.