Picture "Rose in Blue Vase", framed
Picture "Rose in Blue Vase", framed
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limited, 950 copies | original Dietz replica | oil on cardboard | framed | size approx. 58 x 45 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Rose in Blue Vase", framed
Original: Private collection.
Original Dietz replica. Oil on cardboard in 78 colours. Limited edition of 950 copies. Framed with dark real wood strip. Size incl. frame approx. 58 x 45 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
About Alexej von Jawlensky
1864-1941, German-Russian painter
It was not until 1889 that the former Russian Imperial Guard Alexej von Jawlensky in the Tsarist army began his artistic training. In 1896, he moved to Munich to attend a private art school where he met Wassily Kandinsky. In Murnau Jawlensky first worked together with Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter. And together they founded the Artist's Association "Neue Künstlervereinigung München". In addition, Jawlensky was a key member of the "Blauer Reiter" movement. He later co-founded the group "The Blue Four" with Klee, Kandinsky and Feininger.
Expelled from Germany as a Russian citizen in 1914, during the beginning of World War l, the artist settled in Switzerland and later in Wiesbaden, Germany. During this time he created his famous abstract heads. Jawlensky died of a serious illness in 1941.
"My art is meditation or prayer in colours", Jawlensky once said, and indeed his work is characterised by great religiousness. This is particularly noticeable in the series of works of the Saviour’s faces and the abstract heads, which Jawlensky summarises in his memoirs as "saints' heads". The influence of orthodox iconography is unmistakable, and they were already understood as a modern version of the icon by contemporary artist colleagues. The human face in many variations – mostly in strong, even bright colours – had already been a focus of his work before. With the saints' heads, he became more restrained in colour and reduced the subject of the portrait to the face itself. They seem de-individualised without losing expressiveness. A progressive abstraction, lead to an iconic form, which in the sequence seem like a search for an unattainable divine archetype.
Influenced by Fauvism, Alexej von Jawlensky painted with bright colours, fierce brushwork and dark outlines. His works are among the most sought-after works of classical modernism and can be found in the world's great museums.
A revolutionary process developed by Günter Dietz for the authentic reproduction of paintings, in which not the usual printing inks are used but the same original colours used by the artist. Depending on the artist's painting technique, up to 140 (!) different layers of paint my be required to achieve a perfect replica of the original that also tangibly reproduces the "relief" and texture of the paint.
An example is August Macke's "Couple at the Garden Table":
Furthermore, the material of the original carrier is always used, meaning the reproduction is made on canvas, paper, wood, copper, or parchment.
The result is a perfect, gridless reproduction that closely resembles the original in terms of expressiveness and effect. Even museum specialists often can not distinguish the original from the replica. Therefore, a special security note must be added, which is only visible under X-rays.
The edition of most Dietz replicas is limited, usually to 950 copies. Each canvas replica is stretched onto a stretcher frame, just like the original, so that it can be re-stretched in case of fluctuations in room temperature and humidity. A high-quality solid wood frame completes the appearance every Dietz replica.
Numerous masterpiece paintings of Rembrandt, Caspar David Friedrich, Claude Monet, Gustav Klimt, and others, have been recreated by the "Dietz Offizin". Famous modern artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Joan Miró, and Marc Chagall have used this method developed by Günter Dietz in order to have replicas of their works produced.
Press Comments:
"The Dietz System provides images as good as the originals. What electronics achieved with the invention of Hi-Fi and stereo for music playback, this technology has now done for the visual arts." (Die Zeit, German newspaper)
"In theory, there is no difference between the original and the Dietz replica. They should be called facsimiles, not reproductions." (Newsweek, US-American news magazine)
"For art printers all over the world, what Dietz has achieved with the printing technique remains an unattainable goal: the perfect reproduction of painted works." (Der Spiegel, German news magazine)
Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, with its precursors found in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The expressionists sought to reach the fundamental elements of painting. Using vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas, emphasising lines, and aiming for suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke": Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.
A true-to-the-original reproduction of an artwork in the same size and with the best possible material and colour uniformity.
The mould is usually taken directly from the original so that the replication reproduces even the finest details. After casting the replication, using the most appropriate method, the surface is polished, patinated, gilded or painted according to the original.
A replication of ars mundi is a recognizable copy of the original.