Picture "Ezra" (2014) (Unique piece)
Picture "Ezra" (2014) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | acrylic on canvas | unframed | size 50 x 60 cm
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Picture "Ezra" (2014) (Unique piece)
Acrylic on canvas, 2014. Signed on the side. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 50 x 60 cm as shown.
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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.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.