Luigi Rossini

Veduta Di Fianco Del Panteon

1821

Jörg Olberg (*1956 Dresden), Agony, 1987. etching, E.A. (edition of 30), 24 x 17 cm (image), 46 x 37 cm (sheet), each signed in pencil lower right "Olberg" and dated "IX [19]87", inscribed lower left "E.A. [Epreuve d'Artiste]". - minimal crease and dust stains in the broad margin - The architecture of decay - About the artwork Jörg Olberg draws here the sum of his artistic study of the Berlin ruins, which were still present in the cityscape well into the 80s. With his work "Agony" he creates an allegory of decay. Positioned in the landscape of ruins, a ruined house grows before the viewer, rising like the Tower of Babel into the sky, its roof and gable brightly illuminated by the sun. But already the roof shows mostly only the rafters, and as the gaze is drawn further down, the building visibly disintegrates, the beams protruding in all directions looking like splintered bones. Slowly but inexorably - in agony - the house will collapse in on itself and become nothing more than the burial mound of itself. At the same time, the small-scale stone composition and the plaster form a pattern-like ornamentation of decay. The tension in the picture is fed by the counter-movement of growth and collapse, which is heightened by the dramatic formation of clouds. The swirls of clouds are reminiscent of a world landscape...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The mill fire, proof with border incursion, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed and signed b...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The avenue, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed below the image on the left and signed on th...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Mill backlit, 1913, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Monogrammed and dated in the printing plate, inscribed, numb...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Piazza Duomo in San Gimignano, 2 Probedruck, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Monogrammed in the pr...

Antarctica #30 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 20x30 and it is printed on 24x36 archival pa...