Baby Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Embark on a journey through the captivating allure of "Ontological II" (2023), a small artwork that radiates a powerful presence. Blurring the boundaries between conceptual art, Amer...

Watercolor / Pastel / Figurative Art / Human Figure / Nude

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...

Michael Schoenholtz Late Fall (Spaetherbst) Ink on Paper Year: 2017 Monogrammed by hand Edition: Unique Size: 8.3×5.9 on 9.1×6.5 inches Monogramed and dated by hand Signed, dated and titled by hand verso COA provided Ref.: 924802-1584 Michael Schoenholtz (April 8, 1937 in Duisburg – September 30, 2019 in Berlin) was a German sculptor. Michael Schoenholtz was born in Duisburg in April 1937. After graduating from high school, he studied German and art history at the University of Cologne from 1956, and from 1957 at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he was a master student of Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber in 1962/63. From 1971 Schoenholtz taught himself as a professor at the Hochschule (since 2001: University) of the Arts, where he succeeded Schrieber in 1975. Schoenholtz has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 1996, from 1997 to 2003 as director of the fine arts section. In 2005 he retired. Schoenholtz was a member of the German Association of Artists, of which he was elected President for two years in 1998. He lived and worked in Berlin and was married to the painter Barbara Keidel...

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