Picture "Fishing Boats on the Beach" (Unique piece) New
Picture "Fishing Boats on the Beach" (Unique piece) New
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unique piece | monogrammed | ink on paper | framed | size 78.5 x 75.5 cm
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Picture "Fishing Boats on the Beach" (Unique piece)
"After painting for a long time, I am seized by a longing for the colourfulness of black in graphic art", wrote Max Pechstein in 1921. It is striking that the expressionist often dispensed with colour in his works and instead worked with printmaking, drawing or ink.
Pechstein captured his love of the sea in numerous works depicting boats, stretches of beaches, fishermen and coastal scenes. For over 20 summers, he visited the Curonian Spit and coastal towns in Pomerania with his friend Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. The "Fishing Boats on the Beach" are drawn with strong and bold, also flat ink strokes. The shape of the boats is captured with gentle lines, while less ink in the brush strokes highlights the movement of the sea as if the wave motion dissolves in the faint strokes.
As an expressionist, Pechstein was a practitioner of the emotional diversity of situations. While colour expression could accommodate this diversity, it also more strongly defines a phenomenal character. With the initially seemingly reduced medium of the black-and-white drawing, the situation is more easily captured in its fleeting nature.
Ink drawing on firm, grey paper. Monogrammed. Motif size/sheet size 37.8 x 36 cm. Size in frame 78.5 x 75.5 cm as shown.
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About Max Pechstein
1881-1955
Max Pechstein is considered today, as he was then, one of the most important representatives of German Expressionism. In spring 1906, he joined the artists' group "Die Brücke", which had been founded the previous year by Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff and Bleyl. In the field of graphic art, he produced an oeuvre of over 850 woodcuts, lithographs and etchings in addition to his paintings.
What Tahiti was to Paul Gauguin, the Baltic Sea coast was to Max Pechstein: a paradise where he found peace, but above all great inspiration. From 1909 onwards, he travelled several times to Nidden on the Curonian Spit, where Lovis Corinth had worked as a young art student more than a quarter of a century earlier. However, when the Treaty of Versailles placed the Curonian Spit under Allied administration in 1920, the way there was blocked. In his own words, Pechstein had to "once again go in search of a spot of earth that was not overrun by painters, tourists and bathers". He found it in Leba, where from then on he spent his summers on a regular basis.
"For more than twenty years Max Pechstein went to the Baltic coast every summer, first to the Curonian Spit, then to Pomerania, which naturally connected him closely to our house. When he rented a room here with his first wife in 1921, he had no idea how attached he would soon feel to the small harbour town of Leba, for he fell in love with Marta Möller, the daughter of his innkeeper. The pristine nature with its beach lakes and the fishing boats in the harbour, the pipe in his mouth, tanned and the anchor tattooed, those things stayed with the passionate angler Pechstein until the end of his life, even when he and his wife could no longer go to Pomerania after the Second World War." (Dr. Birte Frenssen, Deputy Director at the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald)
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, whereby a distinction can be made between peasant, bourgeois and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly-galant painting became prominent while in Germany the bourgeois character was emphasised.
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.