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Polka Dot Game
Polka Dot Game

Polka Dot Game

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this work, naive playfulness meets quiet resilience. The heroine, dressed in polka dots, seems to have stepped out of an old film — part actress, part observer of her own life. "P...

Category

2010s Modern Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pink bubbles. Abstract painting
Pink bubbles. Abstract painting

Pink bubbles. Abstract painting

Located in Zofingen, AG

It is very interesting to observe the cells that are formed in this technique. And the combination of white, pink and burgundy looks very noble. Note: This painting is painted on can...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Luminous Union (Two Swans)
Luminous Union (Two Swans)

Luminous Union (Two Swans)

Located in Zofingen, AG

shipped in roll "Luminous Union (Two Swans)" is an evocative contemporary work that masterfully balances on the edge of Abstract Impressionism and Lyrical Abstraction. Through a rhyt...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

One more day to go
One more day to go

One more day to go

Located in Zofingen, AG

"One More Day to Go" is a painting about the quiet moment before an inner journey begins. In stillness, movement is already forming. The woman in the frame stands as a symbol of some...

Category

2010s Modern Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sea wave and sun. Abstract painting
Sea wave and sun. Abstract painting

Sea wave and sun. Abstract painting

Located in Zofingen, AG

The painting, created using the fluid acrylic on canvas technique, conveys the dynamic and natural harmony of nature, reminiscent of the play of waves on the seashore and the pattern...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

On the wave of my  soul
On the wave of my  soul

On the wave of my soul

Located in Zofingen, AG

"On the Wave of My Soul" is a painting about memories and faith in dreams. While creating it, I revisited my childhood — those moments when the future seemed endlessly bright, filled...

Category

2010s Modern Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Starfish, abstraction
Starfish, abstraction

Starfish, abstraction

Located in Zofingen, AG

This artwork combines the fluid movement of liquid acrylic with precise geometric accents. Soft flowing lines and cell-like structures create a sense of organic breath, reminiscent o...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Adam and Eve / - United in Death -
Adam and Eve / - United in Death -

Adam and Eve / - United in Death -

Located in Berlin, DE

Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), Adam and Eve, 1897. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr. 113’, 44...

Category

Early 1900s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

Antique, decorative oil painting, 18th century. Christian scene.
Antique, decorative oil painting, 18th century. Christian scene.

Antique, decorative oil painting, 18th century. Christian scene.

Located in Berlin, DE

Antique, decorative oil painting, 18th century. Christian scene. Canvas relined. With a beautiful wooden frame. Dimensions without frame.

Category

18th Century Old Masters Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Patterns, Original Contemporary Painting
Patterns, Original Contemporary Painting

Patterns, Original Contemporary Painting

Located in Boston, MA

Patterns 150.0 x 100.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Acrylic Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Patterns (2010) The collection reveals patterns that we select and follow, either consciously or subconsciously, in our life. patterns which may affect significant aspects of our life." About the Artist: "Leila Rezvani...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Berlin - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Fleeting beauty
Fleeting beauty

Fleeting beauty

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting captures the fleeting beauty of tulips. The delicate flowers, embraced by the young woman, symbolize the transient nature of life’s most exquisite moments. Their soft p...

Category

2010s Modern Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas.
Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas.

Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas.

Located in Berlin, DE

Antique painting, fisherman on the coast, oil on canvas. Frame damaged in places. Dimensions with frame.

Category

19th Century Romantic Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Swan loyalty
Swan loyalty

Swan loyalty

Located in Zofingen, AG

I have always admired these birds, especially when they are in love. These birds are a symbol of love. The picture is made with acrylic on canvas. The piece was photographed with a ...

Category

2010s Pop Art Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kufi poses
Kufi poses

Kufi poses

Located in Berlin, DE

Willibrord Haas (*1936 Schramberg), Kufi poses, 2012. Etching, 44 cm x 32 cm (plate size), 54 cm x 37.5 cm (sheet size). Signed “Willibrord Haas” in lead by the artist, dated “2012”,...

Category

2010s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

Male Nude / - The Drama of the Nude -
Male Nude / - The Drama of the Nude -

Male Nude / - The Drama of the Nude -

Located in Berlin, DE

Johann Heinrich Meil (1730 Gotha - 1820 Berlin), Male Nude, 1807. White heightened, occasionally wiped charcoal drawing on brownish paper, 51 cm x 39.5 cm, signed “J.[ohann] H.[einri...

Category

Early 19th Century Rococo Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

Florentine singer / - The Renaissance of the Renaissance -
Florentine singer / - The Renaissance of the Renaissance -

Florentine singer / - The Renaissance of the Renaissance -

By Paul Dubois

Located in Berlin, DE

Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentine singer, 1865. Light brown patinated bronze with cast round plinth mounted on a square marble base (3.5 cm high). Total height 53 cm. Bronze dimensions: 49.5 cm (height) x 20 cm (length) x 10 cm (width), weight 5.6 kg. Inscribed on the plinth "P.[aul] DUBOIS", dated "1865", with the foundry's mark "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR" and the signet "REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS". - Patina very occasionally darkened, lute with loss of one tuning peg, otherwise in excellent condition. - The renaissance of the Renaissance - The bronze is a precisely executed and masterfully cast contemporary reduction of Paul Dubois 155 cm tall masterpiece "Florentine Singer", which is exhibited in the Musée d'Orsay and for which the artist was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Paris Salon in 1865. The work acted as a beacon, and was followed by a plethora of depictions of juveniles. Inspired by Donatello and Luca della Robbia, but also by painters such as Piero della Francesca, Benozzo Gozzoli, and Pinturicchio, the "Florentine Singer" is not an epigonal work that pays homage to a vanished era, but a successful attempt to draw vitality from the art of the past and thus give it new life. The effect of vitality is the core of Italian Renaissance art theory. In order to fulfill itself as art, art had to appear like nature. This naturalism also characterizes the "Florentine Singer". The young man appears to have been taken from life, which is reinforced by the momentary nature of his action. He has just struck a now fading chord. In addition, the natural appearance is enhanced by the detailed shaping of the figurative details, such as the laces with the slightly curved leather of the shoes, the belt buckle, or the ornamentation on the body of the lute. Even the fingernails are clearly defined. Unlike the Renaissance, however, the effect of liveliness here is not based on the "discovery" of nature and the human body, but primarily on the rediscovery of the art of the Quattrocento. The liveliness of the artwork is therefore at the same time a revitalization of this art, so that we can speak of a Renaissance of the Renaissance, just as the Pre-Raphaelites in England at the same time transferred the Quattrocento to contemporary art. Dubois takes on the most difficult of all subjects, the depiction of singing through silent sculpture. He was preceded in this by Luca della Robbia and Donatello with their pulpits of singers created in the 1430s in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. Compared to these works, the physiognomy of Dubois singer is far less animated, yet he also depicts singing in a convincing manner. He uses the whole body. He takes the ancient contrapposto, which was essential to Renaissance sculpture, and transforms the standing leg-playing posture into a late medieval S-swing, giving the body an elegant beauty and at the same time setting it in melodic motion. In the equally elegant finger position, the music is expressed in a much more literal way with the beating of the lute. Finally, the musicality of the sculpture culminates in the face with the mouth open to sing. Through the act of singing, which is a great challenge to the artistic will to depict perfect beauty, the gracefulness of the classical face is not diminished, but enhanced. Starting from the face with the singing mouth and the gaze absorbed by the sounds, the inner vitality spreads, giving the bronze sculpture an intense aura, enhanced by the music. Dubois transfers the beauty of the Renaissance to the musical, sublimating the visible sculpture to the invisible of music. He took up the challenge of transcending the Renaissance with the Renaissance, thus responding to the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, which arose at the end of the 17th century around the French Academy and remained virulent into the 19th century, in which antiquity was regarded either as an unattainable ideal or as a standard to be surpassed. With his work, Dubois proved that the Renaissance, which had championed the art of the ancients, could lead to a new renaissance of art. About the artist Paul Dubois' great-uncle was the famous French Baroque sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, in whose footsteps the talented great-nephew followed. When he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1858, he signed his work "Dubois-Pigalle". At his father's request, however, he first studied law before devoting himself to sculpture under the tutelage of François Christophe Armand Toussaint in 1856 and entering the École des Beaux-Arts in 1858. From 1859 to 1863, he lived in Rome and traveled to Naples and Florence. Inspired by Florentine art of the quattrocento, Dubois initiated a school-forming neo-Florentine style that combined the elegantly simple forms of youthful grace with a precise wealth of detail.Two purchases by the French state (“envois de Rome”) were made during his stay in Rome, which brought him recognition in Paris. After his return there, he quickly became an internationally sought-after artist. Dubois was also active as a creator of monuments. His most famous work is the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1896) on the forecourt of Reims Cathedral. He was also a sought-after portraitist who produced around 50 busts and - Dubois was also a passionate painter - around 100 portraits in oil. From 1873 to 1878 he was curator of the Museum du Luxembourg, in 1876 he became a member of the Institut de France and from 1878 to 1905 he was director of the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1865, Dubois was awarded the Paris Salon Medal of Honor for his “Florentine Singer”. In 1867 he became Chevalier, in 1874 Officier, in 1886 Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, which awarded Dubois the Grande Croix in 1896. Selected Bibliography Stole, Elmar: Paul Dubois. In: Saur. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 30, Munich - Leipzig 2001, pp. 677-678. GERMAN VERSION Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentinischer Sänger, 1865. Hellbraun patinierte Bronze mit gegossener runder Plinthe auf quadratischem Marmorsockel montiert (3,5 cm Höhe). Gesamthöhe 53 cm. Maße der Bronze: 49,5 cm (Höhe) x 20 cm (Länge) x 10 cm (Breite), Gewicht 5,6 kg. Auf der Plinthe mit „P.[aul] DUBOIS“ bezeichnet, auf „1865“ datiert, mit dem Gießereistempel „F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR“ und dem Signet „REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS“ versehen. - Patina sehr vereinzelt nachgedunkelt, Laute mit Verlust eines Stimmwirbels, ansonsten ausgezeichnet erhalten. - Die Renaissance...

Category

1860s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Bronze

Das Weib

Das Weib

By Edvard Munch

Located in Berlin, DE

Signed in pencil lower right 'Edv. Munch'. Numbered by a different hand '79'. State II, with a chip off the edge just below the light woman. On firm blueish paper. Munch experimented...

Category

1890s Berlin - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Mockery / - Desk Perpetrators -
Mockery / - Desk Perpetrators -

Mockery / - Desk Perpetrators -

By Josef Scharl

Located in Berlin, DE

Josef Scharl (1896 Munich - 1954 New York), Mockery, 1935 (1964), Bronner 30 A. Woodcut on Japanese paper, 51.8 x 25.7 cm (image), 65 cm x 37 cm (sheet size), signed lower right in t...

Category

1930s Expressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

Untitled (10.10.22) (Abstract Painting)
Untitled (10.10.22) (Abstract Painting)

Untitled (10.10.22) (Abstract Painting)

By Joan Saló

Located in London, GB

This work will be sent rolled in tube Joan Saló is a Spanish contemporary abstract painter whose meticulous, meditative approach creates works that bridge manual gesture with digita...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of a young boy, impressionist painting.
Portrait of a young boy, impressionist painting.

Portrait of a young boy, impressionist painting.

Located in Berlin, DE

Portrait of a young boy, impressionist painting. Dimensions WITHOUT frame in cm 32 x 42

Category

20th Century Impressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Pastel, Oil, Board

Naked warrior with short sword / - The New Hercules -
Naked warrior with short sword / - The New Hercules -

Naked warrior with short sword / - The New Hercules -

Located in Berlin, DE

Hermann Volz (1847 Karlsruhe - 1914 ibid.), Naked warrior with short sword, c. 1935. Partially (?) patinated bronze with cast plinth mounted on a black marble base (6.8 cm high). 32....

Category

1930s Art Deco Berlin - Art

Materials

Bronze

Demi Moore, Los Angeles 1992

Demi Moore, Los Angeles 1992

By Annie Leibovitz

Located in Berlin, DE

Printed in 2011. Signed in pencil, titled, dated, inscribed and with the photographer's black copyright stamp, on the verso. Number 7 from a limited edition of 25.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Berlin - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (09.11.22) B (Abstract Painting)
Untitled (09.11.22) B (Abstract Painting)

Untitled (09.11.22) B (Abstract Painting)

By Joan Saló

Located in London, GB

Joan Saló is a Spanish contemporary abstract painter whose meticulous, meditative approach creates works that bridge manual gesture with digital-age precision. He lives and works in ...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Woman eating / - Interior Pictures -
Woman eating / - Interior Pictures -

Woman eating / - Interior Pictures -

By Ruth Schloss

Located in Berlin, DE

Ruth Schloss (1922 Nuremberg - 2013 Kfar Shmaryahu), Woman eating, around 1990. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 22.2 cm x 26.5 cm, signed “Schloss” lower left and signed again in He...

Category

1990s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

Untitled (02.11.22) (Abstract Painting)
Untitled (02.11.22) (Abstract Painting)

Untitled (02.11.22) (Abstract Painting)

By Joan Saló

Located in London, GB

This work will be sent rolled in tube Joan Saló is a Spanish contemporary abstract painter whose meticulous, meditative approach creates works that bridge manual gesture with digita...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Four Young Women and the Boy Cupid / - Mysterious Virtuosity -
Four Young Women and the Boy Cupid / - Mysterious Virtuosity -

Four Young Women and the Boy Cupid / - Mysterious Virtuosity -

By Francesco Bartolozzi

Located in Berlin, DE

Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 Florence - 1815 Lisbon), Mythological Scene with Four Young Women and the Boy Cupid, 1764. Crayon engraving on laid paper after a drawing by Guercino, 22 c...

Category

1760s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

L'Abondance Art Nouveau
L'Abondance Art Nouveau

L'Abondance Art Nouveau

Located in Berlin, DE

Regule / a metal casting alloy 73 cm signed Vincent Désiré Faure de Broussé, "L'Abondance", large Art Nouveau sculpture, reguleVincent Désiré Faure de Broussé, 1834 - Paris - 19...

Category

Early 20th Century Jugendstil Berlin - Art

Materials

Other Medium

Untitled (03.11.22) (Abstract Painting)
Untitled (03.11.22) (Abstract Painting)

Untitled (03.11.22) (Abstract Painting)

By Joan Saló

Located in London, GB

This work will be sent rolled in tube Joan Saló is a Spanish contemporary abstract painter whose meticulous, meditative approach creates works that bridge manual gesture with digita...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique Oil Painting, Winter Landscape with Wild Boars. Hunting Scene.
Antique Oil Painting, Winter Landscape with Wild Boars. Hunting Scene.

Antique Oil Painting, Winter Landscape with Wild Boars. Hunting Scene.

Located in Berlin, DE

Winter landscape with wild boars. Similar to a hunting scene. Signed lower left "W. Heydendahl" Dimensions with frame: 92 cm x 112 cm Dimensions without frame: 71 cm x 90.5 cm "For...

Category

20th Century Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summer Forest Landscape, 1915 / - The Forest Walk -
Summer Forest Landscape, 1915 / - The Forest Walk -

Summer Forest Landscape, 1915 / - The Forest Walk -

Located in Berlin, DE

Stanislas Warnie (1879-1958), Summer Forest Landscape, 1915. Watercolor, 31.5 cm x 45 cm (passepartout), 50.5 cm x 63.5 cm (frame), signed "S. Warnie" at lower left and dated "1915"....

Category

1910s Art Nouveau Berlin - Art

Materials

Watercolor

Gladioli / - The figurativeness of abstraction -
Gladioli / - The figurativeness of abstraction -

Gladioli / - The figurativeness of abstraction -

Located in Berlin, DE

Klaus Fußmann (*1938 Velbert), Gladiolen, 1983. Color etching, WVZ 116.5, 14.5 cm x 18.5 cm (depiction), 20 cm x 21 cm (sheet size), signed “Fuß[mann]” in pencil lower right and insc...

Category

1970s Abstract Impressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

Wettersteinkamm - The blue of the mountains -
Wettersteinkamm - The blue of the mountains -

Wettersteinkamm - The blue of the mountains -

Located in Berlin, DE

Adalbert Holzer (1881 Munich - 1966 Munich). Wettersteinkamm. Watercolour, 29 x 34.5 cm (visible size), 37.5 x 43 cm (frame), signed and dated at lower right 'ADALBERT HOLZER [19]23'. Framed behind glass. Frame shows signs of wear. - The blue of the mountains - About the artwork The Wetterstein ridge is revealed to the viewer from a gentle, snow-covered hill. In contrast to conventional depictions of mountains, the painting is composed entirely of shades of blue, which condense into the blue-grey of the rock or fade into the white of the snow. As a complementary colour to the blue, Holzer virtuously activates the ochre ground. The uniform yet exciting polarity of the colours emphasises the massive majesty of the mountains and at the same time underlines the special character of the Wetterstein ridge. Holzer transferred the translucency of glass painting, in which he was originally trained, to watercolour and developed a pictorial language related to the art of Ferdinand Hodler, which earned him the nickname 'Master of Blue' and led to the appreciation of his watercolours in particular. About the artist After an apprenticeship as a stained glass painter at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Adalbert Holzer studied at the Munich Art Academy under Carl von Marr...

Category

1920s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Watercolor

17th Century, Old Master Painting, Oil on Canvas, "The Rest with the Horses".
17th Century, Old Master Painting, Oil on Canvas, "The Rest with the Horses".

17th Century, Old Master Painting, Oil on Canvas, "The Rest with the Horses".

Located in Berlin, DE

17th century, old master painting, oil on canvas, "The rest with the horses". Relined canvas. The stretcher was also renewed once. The painting is rather dark, like i.a. on photo n...

Category

17th Century Old Masters Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rudolf Hellwag  Venedig 1895
Rudolf Hellwag  Venedig 1895

Rudolf Hellwag Venedig 1895

Located in Berlin, DE

Rudolf Hellwag (* 14. September 1867 in Innsbruck; † 24. Februar 1942 in Berlin Oil on cardboard, signed lower right R. Hellwag A warmly coloured Venice street scene with strollers...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Oil

Expansion. Figurative Photography
Expansion. Figurative Photography

Expansion. Figurative Photography

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Ever dreamed the dream of flight? That ache, standing in the wind, to expand your wings, to feel the air rush by, to let yourself be carried across the world into a different mode of...

Category

2010s Contemporary Berlin - Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Mother Happiness / - The ecstasy of maternal joy -
Mother Happiness / - The ecstasy of maternal joy -

Mother Happiness / - The ecstasy of maternal joy -

Located in Berlin, DE

Johannes Boese (1856 Ostrog - 1917 Berlin), Mutterglück, um 1910. Goldbraun patinierte Bronze auf gegossener rechteckiger Plinthe, montiert auf zweifarbigem Marmorsockel (9,5 cm Höhe...

Category

1910s Art Nouveau Berlin - Art

Materials

Bronze

Magenta pink abstraction
Magenta pink abstraction

Magenta pink abstraction

Located in Zofingen, AG

The work is created in the fluid art technique using acrylic on canvas. The composition is built on a harmonious combination of pink, fuchsia, and powdery tones, softly transitioning...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pink Fantasy. Abstraction.
Pink Fantasy. Abstraction.

Pink Fantasy. Abstraction.

Located in Zofingen, AG

The work is created in the fluid art technique using acrylic on canvas. The composition is built on the soft, flowing interweaving of pink, coral, and milky white tones, creating a s...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mangent white abstraction
Mangent white abstraction

Mangent white abstraction

Located in Zofingen, AG

The work is created in the fluid art technique using acrylic on canvas. The composition is built on smooth, flowing movements of paint, forming multilayered transitions of pink, mage...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Gold in magenta. Abstraction
Gold in magenta. Abstraction

Gold in magenta. Abstraction

Located in Zofingen, AG

The work is created in the fluid art technique using acrylic on canvas. The composition is built on the intense interaction of saturated pink, coral, and crimson tones, complemented ...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Expression 2, abstraction
Expression 2, abstraction

Expression 2, abstraction

Located in Zofingen, AG

The work is created in the fluid art technique on canvas, where the primary expressive element is the movement of paint. The composition is structured around a dynamic diagonal flow ...

Category

2010s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Evening - The depth of the visible -
Evening - The depth of the visible -

Evening - The depth of the visible -

Located in Berlin, DE

Max Clarenbach (1880 Neuss - Cologne 1952), Evening. Etching, 18 x 41 cm (platemark), 33.5 x 57 cm (frame), inscribed "Abend" in pencil at lower left, signed and dated "M. Clarenbach. 28.III.[19]09". Framed and mounted under glass. - Somewhat browned and slightly foxed. About the artwork The horizontally elongated etching depicts the panoramic view of a small town as seen from the other side of the river. There are gabled houses on the left and a mighty church spire on the right. The bourgeois houses and the large religious building indicate the urban character. These buildings are rendered in dark tones to emphasise the lighter row of houses in the centre of the picture, closer to the water. The chiaroscuro contrast creates two parallel planes that open up a space for the imagination of what the city could be. The imagination is stimulated by the almost entirely dark, barely recognisable buildings, while the arm of the river leading into the city further stimulates the imagination. However, as the silhouette of the city as a whole is reflected in the water, the parallel planes are perceived as a band of houses that stretches across the entire horizontality of the etching and seems to continue beyond the borders of the picture. The reflection has almost the same intensity as the houses themselves, so that the band of buildings merges with their reflection to form the dominant formal unit of the picture. Only the parallel horizontal hatching creates the convincing impression of seeing water, demonstrating Max Clarenbach's mastery of the etching needle. The water is completely motionless, the reflection unclouded by the slightest movement of the waves, creating a symmetry within the formal unity of the cityscape and its reflection that goes beyond the motif of a mere cityscape. A pictorial order is established that integrates everything in the picture and has a metaphysical character as a structure of order that transcends the individual things. This pictorial order is not only relevant in the pictorial world, but the picture itself reveals the order of the reality it depicts. Revealing the metaphysical order of reality in the structures of its visibility is what drives Clarenbach as an artist and motivates him to return to the same circle of motifs. The symmetry described is at the same time inherent an asymmetry that is a reflection on art: While the real cityscape is cut off at the top of the picture, two chimneys and above all the church tower are not visible, the reflection illustrates reality in its entirety. The reflection occupies a much larger space in the picture than reality itself. Since antiquity, art has been understood primarily as a reflection of reality, but here Clarenbach makes it clear that art is not a mere appearance, which can at best be a reflection of reality, but that art has the potential to reveal reality itself. The revealed structure of order is by no means purely formalistic; it appears at the same time as the mood of the landscape. The picture is filled with an almost sacred silence. Nothing in the picture evokes a sound, and there is complete stillness. There are no people in Clarenbach's landscape paintings to bring action into the picture. Not even we ourselves are assigned a viewing position in the picture, so that we do not become thematic subjects of action. Clarenbach also refrains from depicting technical achievements. The absence of man and technology creates an atmosphere of timelessness. Even if the specific date proves that Clarenbach is depicting something that happened before his eyes, without the date we would not be able to say which decade, or even which century, we are in. The motionless stillness, then, does not result in time being frozen in the picture, but rather in a timeless eternity that is nevertheless, as the title "Abend" (evening), added by Clarenbach himself, makes clear, a phenomenon of transition. The landscape of the stalls is about to be completely plunged into darkness, the buildings behind it only faintly discernible. The slightly darkened state of the sheet is in keeping with this transitional quality, which also lends the scene a sepia quality that underlines its timelessness. And yet the depiction is tied to a very specific time. Clarenbach dates the picture to the evening of 28 March 1909, which does not refer to the making of the etching, but to the capture of the landscape's essence in the landscape itself. If the real landscape is thus in a state of transition, and therefore something ephemeral, art reveals its true nature in that reality, subject to the flow of phenomena, is transferred to an eternal moment, subject to a supra-temporal structure of order - revealed by art. Despite this supratemporality, the picture also shows the harbingers of night as the coming darkening of the world, which gives the picture a deeply melancholy quality, enhanced by the browning of the leaf. It is the philosophical content and the lyrical-melancholic effect of the graphic that give it its enchanting power. Once we are immersed in the image, it literally takes a jerk to disengage from it. This etching, so characteristic of Max Clarenbach's art, is - not least because of its dimensions - a major work in his graphic oeuvre. About the artist Born into poverty and orphaned at an early age, the artistically gifted young Max Clarenbach was discovered by Andreas Achenbach and admitted to the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 13. "Completely penniless, I worked for an uncle in a cardboard factory in the evenings to pay for my studies.” - Max Clarenbach At the academy he studied under Arthur Kampf, among others, and in 1897 was accepted into Eugen Dücker...

Category

Early 1900s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Etching

thunderstorm
thunderstorm

thunderstorm

Located in Berlin, DE

Woodcut on handmade paper. 1974. 43 x 33 cm hand signed Wolfgang Mattheuer was a German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. Alongside Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, he is c...

Category

1970s Abstract Berlin - Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Imre Goth, 1893-1982, Hungary, "Little lady with doll" Oil on canvas circa 1931
Imre Goth, 1893-1982, Hungary, "Little lady with doll" Oil on canvas circa 1931

Imre Goth, 1893-1982, Hungary, "Little lady with doll" Oil on canvas circa 1931

By Imre Goth

Located in Berlin, DE

Large, enticing and very decorative painting. Oil on canvas. Signed Imre Goth 1931. 1931. Motif of an elgant, young girl with her doll. Beautiful painting in impressionist style. ...

Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Eutrope Bouret (1833-1906) Psyché
Eutrope Bouret (1833-1906) Psyché

Eutrope Bouret (1833-1906) Psyché

By Eutrope Bouret

Located in Berlin, DE

Eutrope Bouret Bronze Spyche Eutrope Bouret (French, 1833-1906) Late 19th century. Signed on the base Bouret (French, 1833–1906) was an important 19...

Category

19th Century Jugendstil Berlin - Art

Materials

Bronze

Blue 777
Blue 777

Blue 777

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting won First Place at the Blue Koi Gallery “True Blue” competition (December 2025) for Artistic Excellence. The work explores themes of inner strength and collective ident...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

S. Anton Patenkirchen / - The Home of the Landscape -
S. Anton Patenkirchen / - The Home of the Landscape -

S. Anton Patenkirchen / - The Home of the Landscape -

Located in Berlin, DE

Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), S. Anton Patenkirchen, 1895. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr....

Category

1890s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper

SIMON PETER TILEMANN, Family Portrait, 1658, Old Master. Baroque Rococo Painting
SIMON PETER TILEMANN, Family Portrait, 1658, Old Master. Baroque Rococo Painting

SIMON PETER TILEMANN, Family Portrait, 1658, Old Master. Baroque Rococo Painting

By Simon Peter Tilemann

Located in Berlin, DE

Extremely decorative and large oil painting from the 17th century. Restored in places.   Signed and dated Simon Peter Tileman 1658 fecit 'lower right Dimensions without frame. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Simon Peter Tilemann (1601, Lemgo – 1668, Vienna), was a German Baroque painter who was active Bremen, Kassel and Italy. According to Houbraken he first learned to paint flowers and he had a daughter who could paint flowers in watercolors. He was a good landscape painter who spent many years in Italy, but later switched to portrait painting and who painted the portrait of Ferdinand...

Category

1650s Old Masters Berlin - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -

Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -

Located in Berlin, DE

Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left. - Paper slightly darkened About the artwork Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death. The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea. A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body. About the artist As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting. From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...

Category

1910s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Watercolor

Muse / - In the realm of the muses -
Muse / - In the realm of the muses -

Muse / - In the realm of the muses -

Located in Berlin, DE

Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), Muse, 1893. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr. 174’, 43.5 cm x ...

Category

1890s Realist Berlin - Art

Materials

Paper