Picture "Napoleon in Berlin on 28 October 2006" (Unique piece)
Picture "Napoleon in Berlin on 28 October 2006" (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | framed | size 206 x 256 cm
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Picture "Napoleon in Berlin on 28 October 2006" (Unique piece)
On 28 October 1806, Napoleon marched triumphantly into Berlin - the Prussians had been defeated at Jena and Auerstedt. Römer & Römer transport this historical event into the year 2006. Napoleon, in a field-grey coat and the uniform of a colonel of the guard, enters Berlin on his flying horse, accompanied by the fusilier guard armed with muzzle-loaders. The spectators are real contemporaries of today.
Oil on canvas 2006, signed, dated and titled on the back. Size in handmade frame 206 x 256 cm as shown.
About Römer + Römer
Nina Tangian (later Nina Römer) was born in 1978 in Moscow. She was a master-class student of Prof. A.R. Penck. Torsten Römer was born in 1968 in Aachen, Germany. Since 1998, the artist couple is working together in Berlin. In the same year, they commenced their long-term independent international art project M°A°I°S (German abbreviation for Painting°Abstraction°Installation°Sculpture).
Römer + Römer are rising artists. They are among the young artists of "New German Art" who are revolutionising the art market with their works of art.
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.