Ferdinand Schmutzer

Il Joachim Quartet 1904

1904

Watercolor etchings. Series of twelve loose sheets etched and colored by hand, with caption and name of related month at the bottom, depicting typical scenes related to each month of...

Painted porcelain tile, on which Louise of Prussia is depicted. The queen is dressed in a white dress edged with gold, in an Empire style, while on one of her shoulders she wears a blue cloak lined with ermine; her blond hair is gathered and held in place thanks to a golden diadem. Luisa is coming down the steps of a classical building: the base and the lower part of a tapered column can be glimpsed, just as the herms in the background look to the ancient world, while in the background she sees a wooded landscape. The porcelain is branded on the back with the royal scepter...

Mixed technique: reworked photograph with applications of wax and overlapping of painted plexiglass panel. Eva Petrič, an artist of S...

The painting features the enthroned Madonna and Child, two praying angels, and Saints Nicholas of Tolentino, Augustine, Luke the Evangelist, and Monica, below an elegant canopy. The ...

Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italian school of the seventeenth century. The large canvas derives from an engraving of 1562 by the Venetian Giulio Sanuto, who faithfully reproduce...

The figure of the Magdalene emerges from the darkness, leaning to follow the curve of the stone support; it is depicted vaulted with an interrogative air towards the dark, as if in an attitude of listening, the left hand raised and the other leaning on the "memento mori" very shortened. In front of her a scourge and the jar of ointment. Painted en pendant, Saint John the Baptist is depicted as a young man, with a lamb at his feet, in his hand the processional cross with the banner "exception agnus dei", while with his right hand he draws from the source of water, recalling the episode that will see Jesus Christ baptized. In both paintings the figures stand out in a strong and incisive way thanks to the black that characterizes the slate plate on which they are depicted. Historical-critical analysis: We are faced with two examples of oil painting on stone. The beginnings of this particular technique are to be placed in the first half of the sixteenth century: after some fifteenth-century experiments it is with Sebastiano del Piombo that the genre takes hold in the sixteenth century. There were different types of support used, also linked to their availability: amethyst, marble in various colors, alabaster and blackboard. The reasons underlying this technical choice refer to Renaissance artistic theories: it is no coincidence that the painter who most often experimented with oil painting on marble...

Unique artwork. Etching, digital C-Print, ink.

Right and left brain duality together with the male and female dichotomy inspired this series of two. In Jungian psychology the divine feminine component is depicted in this work, sh...

This work, deeply interwoven with  the moon, nurtures miraculous springtime bounty. Embracing all that nature provides, lunar movements regulating life's rhythms are seen and felt he...

Right brain left brain energies and the male and female components within inspired this series of two. This work in Jungian psychology represents the divine masculine component as on...

Inspired by a photographic image made by the artists from behind the Seljalandsfoss waterfall in Iceland, this work generates feelings of flowing love and emotion. Affection is conta...

Hope inspired this work with its beginnings in a city dating back to the seventh century, Krakow, Poland. Nestled within this UNESCO World Heritage Site, known as Old Town, within th...