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Item Ships From: Berlin
Plant Impression in Locarno - Floral Crescendo -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alexander Frenz (1861 Rheydt - 1941 Düsseldorf). Plant impression in Locarno. Gouache and watercolour. 35 x 23,5 cm (visible size), 49,5 x 38,5 cm (fra...
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1890s Impressionist Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Study with Torso, Hands, and Umbrella - The characteristic of the inconspicuous
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 Berlin - 1915 ibid.). Sketch of a female torso with hands and an umbrella. Pencil on paper, 27.5 x 22.5 cm (visible size)...
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1890s Realist Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Still life with fish bones, pencil and pencil sharpener
Located in Berlin, DE
Manfred K. Schwitteck (*1948), Still life with fish bones, pencil and pencil sharpener, 1992. watercolor over pencil on handmade paper, 31.5 x 45 cm (visible size), 47 x 61 cm (frame...
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1990s Surrealist Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Still life with fish bones and champagne corks / - Behind still life -
Located in Berlin, DE
Manfred K. Schwitteck (*1948), Still life with fish bones and champagne corks, 1992. watercolor over pencil on handmade paper, 31.5 x 45 cm (visible size), 47 x 61 cm (frame), signed...
Category
1990s Surrealist Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Clay jug on a bench - The essence of the clay jar revealed by the sunlight -
By Hans Richard von Volkmann
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Richard von Volkmann (1860 Halle (Saale) - 1927 ibid.), Clay jug on a bench. Pencil and Watercolour on paper. 20 x 26,7 cm (visible size), 37 x 45 cm (frame), dated and monogrammed lower left "Februar 1890 - HR. V. V."
- Minimally tanned. Framed behind glass in a passepartout.
About the artwork
Using the technique of his early youth - pencil and watercolour - Hans Richard von Volkmann depicts a still life. However, this is not a conventional indoor still life, but an open-air depiction, painted outdoors and not in the studio. It is therefore an open-air painting, characteristic of von Volkmann's oeuvre, which could have been painted in the Willingshausen colony of painters, where open-air painting was programmatically practised there and the artist stayed there that year.
And indeed, this painting is a manifesto of open-air painting. Von Volkmann demonstrates that leaving the studio for the light of nature leads to an entirely new quality of art. To prove this, he uses the genre of still life, which can be described as the studio subject par excellence. Moreover, light plays an essential role in the classical still life. It is the real protagonist of the still life. And it is precisely this moment, essential to the still life, that von Volkmann exploits to demonstrate the potential of plein-air painting: He presents the objects as they appear in the sunlight. The date of February and the bare branches in the foreground make it clear that this is a clear winter day in bright sunlight. The delicate plant in the foreground casts a clearly defined shadow, as does the jug. However, the shadow is most pronounced on the jug itself: The underside of the handle appears almost black, making the top, and therefore the jug itself, shine all the more brightly. The shining of the objects in the sunlight is also visible on the bench. As complementary phenomena to the shadow zones, light edges can be seen on the boards of the seats and the upper foot of the bench shines entirely in the light. To achieve this intensity of light, von Volkmann activated the bright white of the painting ground.
By depicting the objects in glistening sunlight, von Volkmann demonstrates that this quality of light is only to be found outdoors. And this light leads to a new way of looking at the objects themselves. The jug on the bench seems like an accidental arrangement, as if the artist had stumbled upon this unintentional still life and captured it with fascination. And in this fascination there is a moment of realisation that refers to the objects themselves. It is only when they shine brightly in the sunlight that their true nature is revealed. In this way, sunlight allows the objects to come into their own, so to speak. Sunlight, which is not present in the studio, gives the still life an entirely new dimension of reality, which is also reflected in the colours interwoven by the sunlight: The bench and the jug stand in a harmonious grey-pink contrast to the green of the implied meadow.
The emphasis on the jug as the central subject of the picture also implies that the watercolour has not been completed. This non finito inscribes a processuality into the picture, making it clear that something processual has been depicted, the temporality of which has been made artistically permanent. This is why von Volkmann signed the painting and dated it to the month.
About the Artist
Von Volkmann made his first artistic attempts at the age of 14. He painted many watercolours of his home town of Halle. This laid the foundation for his later outdoor painting.
In 1880 his autodidactic beginnings were professionalised with his admission to the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he studied under Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt until 1888. Von Volkmann then moved to the Karlsruhe Academy, where he was Gustav Schönleber's master pupil until 1892.
In 1883 he came for the first time to Willingshausen, Germany's oldest painters' colony, at the suggestion of his student friend Adolf Lins...
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1890s Naturalistic Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Secret Garden 18 - Contemporary, Drawing, Flower, White, Black, Figurative
By Alina Aldea
Located in Berlin, DE
Secret Garden 18, 2021
black ink on paper
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic observati...
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2010s Post-Modern Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Secret Garden 13 - Contemporary Art, Flower, Black, White, Organic, 21st Century
By Alina Aldea
Located in Berlin, DE
Secret Garden 13, 2020
white ink on black cardboard
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic...
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2010s Contemporary Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Cardboard
Secret Garden 12 - 21st Century, Flower, White, Black, Contemporary Art
By Alina Aldea
Located in Berlin, DE
Secret Garden 12, 2020
white ink on black cardboard
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic...
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2010s Contemporary Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Cardboard, Ink
Secret Garden 1 - Contemporary, Flower, White, Black, Drawing, 21st Century
By Alina Aldea
Located in Berlin, DE
Secret Garden 1, 2019
Black ink on white cardboard (signed)
39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in.
100 H x 70 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of micr...
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2010s Contemporary Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Cardboard, Ink
Secret Garden 2 - Contemporary, Drawing, Flower, Black, White, 21st Century
By Alina Aldea
Located in Berlin, DE
Secret Garden 2, 2019
White ink on black cardboard (signed)
39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in.
100 H x 70 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of micr...
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2010s Contemporary Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Cardboard, Ink
Secret Garden 3 - 21st Century, Flowers, Drawing, Black, White, Contemporary
By Alina Aldea
Located in Berlin, DE
Secret Garden 3, 2019
White ink on black cardboard
39 3/8 H x 27 9/6 W in.
100 H x 70 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic o...
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2010s Contemporary Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Cardboard
Bodegon II - Contemporary, Still Life, Fruits, Light Blue, Yellow, Banana, Lemon
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Berlin, DE
Bodegon II, 2014
Tempera on paper (Signed, Framed)
27 3/5 H × 39 2/5 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
On the subject of his new works the artist stated:
“There is not enough orange, yellow and...
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2010s Contemporary Berlin - Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Paper
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Leo R. Schidlof: The miniature in Europe. In the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, vol. 1: A - L, Graz 1964.
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