Picture "Small Odenwald - Frieze VII" (2012) (Unique piece)
Picture "Small Odenwald - Frieze VII" (2012) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | framed | size 54 x 74 cm
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Picture "Small Odenwald - Frieze VII" (2012) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2012. Signed. Size in frame 54 x 74 cm as shown.
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About Johannes Heisig
Johannes Heisig, born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1953, studied there at the Academy of Visual Arts. From 1988 to 1991 he worked as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Dresden and latterly its president. Johannes Heisig now lives and works as a freelance artist in Dresden and Berlin. His works are collected by the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the British Museum, London and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, among others.
Johannes Heisig is the son of the painter Bernhard Heisig and is considered a representative of the socially critical tradition of realism. He deals with a wide variety of themes and makes them his pictorial motifs, whereas landscape painting plays a significant role in his oeuvre.
In those landscape paintings, he offers the viewer a vista of the vast Southern French landscape. In the foreground, plants and trees are dimly visible, while in the background, hills, horizon and sky are shrouded in a diffuse blue and violet light of the rising sun on a summer's day.
With a loose brush, quick ductus and a steady hand, the artist delivers a glimpse of the landscape that surrounded him while painting. In doing so, he unleashes chains of associations about travelling, going on a walk and exploring. "When I paint, I always fly a little," this sentence by Heisig is an example of the spherically resonant feeling of freedom immanent in the paintings.
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.