Picture "O.T. (Head)" (1978) (Unique piece)

Picture "O.T. (Head)" (1978) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | oil on canvas | framed | size 76 x 43.5 cm
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Picture "O.T. (Head)" (1978) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 1978. Signed and dated. Size in frame 76 x 43.5 cm as shown.
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About Max Uhlig
Max Uhlig was born in 1937 in Dresden, Germany. He is a true master of line. The roots of his work lie in drawing and graphic art. However, he soon discovered a fascination for painting as well.
Portraits and landscapes dominate his oeuvre. Following the classical tradition of plein air painting, Uhlig's landscapes are created directly in nature. The banks of the Elbe in Dresden, the vastness of Mecklenburg, the Erzgebirge and later also southern France form the backdrop for his landscape depictions. Those depictions consist of dense, gestural weavings of lines, which the German art magazine "Art" recently described as "uncompromising".
Max Uhlig has developed his own haunting visual language, for which he has received notable awards and international recognition. In 1987, Uhlig received the Kollwitz Prize and, in 1991, the São Paulo Biennial Prize. Graphics and paintings by the long-time professor of painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden are in renowned museums worldwide.
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.