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Item Ships From: Germany
On the walk
Located in Oslo, NO
A minimalist but masterfully executed monochrome watercolor. The work is striking in its lightness - although there is nothing on it except the figure of a child, from the way he is ...
Category
2010s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
ballerina pointe shoes
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this delicate composition, the ethereal elegance of ballet is conveyed through the image of pointe shoes against a soft pink background. Pointe shoes, symbols of grace and dedica...
Category
2010s Modern Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled #7 - Drawing, Landscape, Abstract, 21st Contemporary
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled #7, 2016
Wax crayon on paper
78 7/10 × 59 1/10 in
200 × 150 cm
Signed on reverse
Berszán tries to bring forward the moment of the brutal unbinding between “I” and the “oth...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
A girl
Located in Oslo, NO
Minimalistic but masterfully executed monochrome watercolor. The work immediately attracts attention with the originality of the composition - the image is shifted to the right edge ...
Category
2010s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Malua Rosea Multiplex (drawing paper monochrome Botany girl braids monochrome)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
Category
2010s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Lying Boy / - Fragile childlikeness -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alfred Fuchs (1925 Saarbrücken - 2003 Prague), Lying Boy. Charcoal drawing on strong paper, 30 x 41.5 cm, signed A.[lfred] Fuchs and dated [19]96.
- smal...
Category
1990s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
$519 Sale Price
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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 Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$614 Sale Price
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Italian School, Nicolo Grassi, 18th, Worship of Venus, The Venus Sacrifice, Amor
Located in Greven, DE
Italian School, 18th Century, Circle of Grassi,
This old master drawing is drawn in the late-Baroque or Rococo style.
It depicts a woman worshipping Venus/ preparing a sacrifice for ...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
$1,630 Sale Price
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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 Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Hercules after Carracci VI - 21st Century, Figurative Drawing, Yellow, Blue
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Hercules after Carracci VI , 2014
Tempera on paper (Framed, Signed on front)
27 3/5 H × 39 2/5 W in
70 H × 100 W cm
On the subject of his new works the artist stated:
“There is not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Flemish Old Master, Study of Donkey Carriage, 17th Century, Sanguine Drawing
Located in Greven, DE
This drawing shows several studies of a donkey with a carriage. Its style is close to Flemish 17th century artists. On the passepartout one reads "Mathias Scheyer/ Jacob Weyer", both...
Category
17th Century Baroque Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper
$850 Sale Price
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untitled, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Secret Garden 18 - Contemporary, Drawing, Flower, White, Black, Figurative
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, 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...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Librarian - Blue, Collage, Paper, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Librarian, 2022
collage on paper
61.5 H x 56 W cm
Signed on reverse
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Black_X - 21st Century, Abstract, Drawing, Black, White, Monochrome
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Black_X, 2016
pencil, white pastel on black cardboard
27.55 H x 19.68 W in.
70 H x 50 W cm
Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to rapidly disappear, w...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard, Pencil
French Art, Rococo, Portrait Queen Marie Antoinette France, Oval, Circle Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Pastel /oil Pastel on Paper, Rococo, 18th Century. The Pastel is made in the style...
Category
18th Century Rococo Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
$5,907 Sale Price
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Evening tea
Located in Zofingen, AG
Evening Tea" is a painting permeated with soft light and the aroma of a summer garden. Lush flowers in a vase seem to whisper stories of quiet evenings, and a cup of tea standing ne...
Category
2010s Modern Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Pilgrim - Green, Red, Collage, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Pilgrim, 2022
collage, tempera, ink on paper
56.5 H x 40.5 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
$897 Sale Price
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The Headless Soldier - Orange, Paper, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Headless Soldier, 2022
collage, tempera, spray on paper
50 H x 35 W cm
Signed on right side down
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper, textiles, pieces of plastic, found or made objects, which intertwine on the paper support and as in a well-controlled and thought puzzle give birth to a new universe.
The new series of collages...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Tempera
Young Ballerina
Located in Zofingen, AG
This captivating painting portrays a young ballerina, delicately adjusting her pointe shoes. Dressed in a ballet tutu, she exudes grace and discipline. Th...
Category
2010s Modern Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warm Evening with Tea
Located in Zofingen, AG
Warm Evening with Tea" is a painting permeated with soft light and the aroma of a summer garden. Lush flowers in a vase seem to whisper stories of quiet evenings, and a cup of tea s...
Category
2010s Modern Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative Composition / - Expressive Signs -
Located in Berlin, DE
Max Neumann (* 1949 Saarbrücken) and Eta Bender (*1948 Heidelberg), Figurative Composition, around 1970. Mixed media on tracing paper, mounted on thin backing paper, 29.6 cm x 21 cm,...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Body in the Field #8 - Green, Landscape, Drawing, Pencils
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #8, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Untitled - 21st Century, Black, Monochrome, Abstract Drawing, Organic, Tactile
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled, 2016
Black glue on paper (Signed on reverse)
78 7/10 H × 59 1/10 W in
200 H × 150 W cm
Berszán depicts in his works the primary turmoil where the violence of the unbinding...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Glue
The Dreamcatcher - Collage, Paper, Red, Contemporary Art
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Dreamcatcher, 2022
collage on paper
46 H x 37.5 W cm
Signed on right side down
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper, textiles, pieces of plastic, found or made objects, which intertwine on the paper support and as in a well-controlled and thought puzzle give birth to a new universe.
The new series of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Portrait Old Master, Joseph Vivien, Mme Silvestre, French Rococo, Pastel
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
The portrait shows Mme Silvestre.
Born in Paris, Silvestre was the daughter of Charles-Antoine Hérault and his wife Marie-Geneviève, who were her first teachers. In 1706 she married the painter Louis de Silvestre, moving with him in 1716 to Dresden. The couple's daughter Marie-Maximilienne became a pastellist. Silvestre died in Dresden, the year before her husband retired and returned to Paris. Her surviving pastels show the influence of Rosalba Carriera...
Category
18th Century Rococo Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
The Registrar - Contemporary Art, Collage on Paper, Funny, Green
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Registrar, 2019
collage on paper
15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in.
40 H x 30 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of faces composed of different materials – cardboards, textiles...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Siren - Contemporary Art, Nude, Female, Nature, White, Blue, Gray, Flowers
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Siren, 2015
Collage on cardboard
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
The artist's reference on fundamental myths of humanity and their analysis from the perspective of contempo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Cardboard
Body in the Field #3 - Red, Pencils, Landscape
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #3, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
I Dreamed of You
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "I Dreamed of You" offers a refined exploration of human sensuality and emotional experiences. At the center of the composition is an elegant woman with a confident gaz...
Category
2010s Modern Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococo Portait, French Rococo, Marie Baudouin, Daughter of Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of the daughter of Francois Boucher, Marie-Emilie Baudouin, holding a basket of flowers. Pastel on Parchment. The work is related to an oval portrait painting...
Category
18th Century Rococo Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$8,506 Sale Price
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The Origami Seller - Contemporary Art, Collage, Orange, Funny, 21st Century
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Origami Seller, 2019
collage on paper
15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in.
40 H x 30 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of faces composed of different materials – cardboards, tex...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Soap clouds - Drawing, Contemporary, Fantasy, Animals, Children's Room
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Soap clouds, 2014
Acryl, fineliner and colored pencil on paper
13.97 H x 19.68 W in
35.5 H x 50 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Acrylic
Red Sea - Contemporary, Drawing on Paper, Pink, Dreamlike, Figurative
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Red Sea, 2014
Collage, acrylic and colored fineliner on paper (Signed)
11.69 H x 16.53 W in
29.7 H x 42 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
By Harald Kroner
Located in London, GB
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink, oil on paper - unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which h...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil
Disparate III - Contemporary, Figurative, Ananas, Green, Red, Portrait, Male
By Alexandru Rădvan
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Disparate III, 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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Fenzoni, Painting AND preparatorial Drawing, John the Baptist, Italy Renaissance
By Ferrau Fenzoni
Located in Greven, DE
The painting and the preparatory drawing are offered together.
Provenance
Private collection, Germany, Trier, c. 1980- 2013
Saint John the Baptist
Brown ink and wash over red chalk on oatmeal paper
31 x 20.5 cm
Inscribed: „Ferrau Fenzonio da Faenza invt. esque … imp. da Fran. Villamena …“.
bears the collector's mark of Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950; Lugt 2274a) on a tiny label glued to the verso
On the reverse is a partial drawing of a Pieta, pricked for transfer.
Provenance
New York, Doyle, 14. October 2015, No. 6
The painting and the preparatory drawing resemble the composition of an engraving after Ferraù Fenzoni by Francesco Villamena. Drawing, engraving and painting are almost identical, except for minor differences. Even the measurements nearly correspond: painting (32 x 25,5 cm), drawing (30 x 20,5 cm), engraving (31,1 x 23,5 cm).
Dr. Guiseppe Scavizzi confirmed the attribution of the present panting to Fenzoni and he dates it to c. 1590.
The inscription on the drawing reads “Ferrau Fenzonio da Faenza invt. esque. . . imp. da Fran: Villamena . . .”. The engraving’s inscription also lists place and date “Ferra Fensionius inventor/F. Villamoena sculpsit Rome/Aspectu fruitur… antra puer/cum Privilegio… 1613”.
Interestingly, the engraving is not mirrored as it is in most printing processes. Painting, drawing and engraving are not reversed but the same. It is remarkable to note that there are further paintings by Fenzoni which were engraved in the same order and not reverted. They also show strong parallels regarding the compositions and the measurements (see for example “Deposition of Christ” ).
Ferraù Fenzoni was an Italian painter mainly active in Todi. He is also called Il Faenzone after his birthplace (Faenza). He apprenticed in Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII and contributed to numerous fresco cycles under pope Sixtus V, such as the Loggia della Benedizioni in the Lateran Palace, the frescoes on the walls and vaults of the Scala Santa of the adjacent Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, and the decoration in the Sistine library. His expressive canvases straddle the styles of Mannerism and Baroque. In 1594, he moved to Todi. A “Last Judgement” by him is housed in the cathedral of Todi. He returned to Faenza in 1599, where he decorated chapels in the cathedral from 1612 to 1616. In 1622, he completed a “Deposition”, now in the local Pinacoteca. In 1640, Fenzoni was named “cavaliere dello speron d’oro” by Cardinal Colonna and, on 25th April 1634, he was nominated vicar and “castellano of Granarolo”.
Fenzoni‘s style is characterized by a mixture of the Mannerism of the Northern Netherlands and the Italian Baroque.
Saint John the Baptist, Old Master, 17th Century, By Fenzoni, Religious Scene, Rome Art...
Category
16th Century Mannerist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper
Ferrau FenzoniFenzoni, Painting AND preparatorial Drawing, John the Baptist, Italy Renaissance, 1590
$28,354 Sale Price
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Dreamy girl, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings are very personal, they capture my everyday life, my reaction to things I experienced, either yesterday, in my childhood or even events I imagine. My portraits pick up o...
Category
2010s Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
The actor Karl Seydelmann as soldier / - The expressiveness of a simple pose -
Located in Berlin, DE
Theodor Hosemann (1807 Brandenburg - 1875 Berlin), The actor Karl Seydelmann as soldier, around 1840. Watercolor in pencil, 22 cm (height) x 14.7 cm (width), signed “Th.[eodor] Hosem...
Category
1840s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Female Nude from the Back, around 1900 / - The contour of the Art Nouveau -
By Ludwig von Hofmann
Located in Berlin, DE
Ludwig von Hofmann (1861 Darmstadt - 1945 Pillnitz), Female nude from the back, around 1900. Red chalk drawing on watermarked drawing paper, 36 cm x 44 cm (sheet size). Artist's liga...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
French Art, Rococo Portrait, Oval, Pastel, Portrait of a Lady, Circle of Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Rococo, 18th Century, Fine drawing in Pastel/ Oil Pastel on Paper in the style of Vivien. The Lady might be a woman from Marie Antoinette's Court. It is part of a Pendant (see the other listing with the portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette...
Category
18th Century Rococo Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
$6,616 Sale Price
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Woodland / - The Inner Drama of the Landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (1833 Vienna - 1913 Berlin), Woodland, 1884. Watercolor and pen and ink on drawing paper, 30.4 cm x 22.5 cm, signed, dated and inscribed by the artist...
Category
1880s Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Landscape verso Forest interior / - Landscape as a space of imagination -
Located in Berlin, DE
Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Landscape verso Forest interior, around 1950. India ink on grained, bleached paper, 40.5 x 58 cm, signed “Herbert Seidel” in pencil on...
Category
1950s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Yappanoise 47 (Abstract work on paper)
By Harald Kroner
Located in London, GB
Yappanoise 47 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink, enamel on paper - Unframed
This work is part of one of 4 on-going series of large works on paper.
T...
Category
2010s Minimalist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Autumn verso Summer Landscape / - Imagined Landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Seidel, Herbert (1906-1974), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953
Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Autumn verso Summer Landscape, 1953. India ink on grained, bleached p...
Category
1950s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
HK1906YP (Abstract work on paper)
By Harald Kroner
Located in London, GB
HK1906YP (Abstract work on paper)
Ink, enamel, collage on paper - Unframed.
This work is part of one of 4 on-going series of large works on paper...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Sketch of a head - Carved in stone -
Located in Berlin, DE
Emil Faesch (1865 Basel - 1915 Basel). Sketch of a head. Charcoal on painting cardboard, 60 x 47.5 cm (folio size), signed and dated at lower right "E. Faesch. 1888.".
Minor browning.
- Carved in stone -
About the artwork
The life-size head has an immensely present presence. This effect is due to the fact that Faesch took his cue from academic classical...
Category
1880s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$425 Sale Price
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Woman in blue, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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 Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,323 Sale Price
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The actor Karl Seydelmann, probably as Max Piccolomini / - Theatrical Realism -
Located in Berlin, DE
Theodor Hosemann (1807 Brandenburg - 1875 Berlin), The actor Karl Seydelmann probably as Max Piccolomini, around 1840. Watercolor with pencil, 20.5 cm (height) x 14.7 cm (width), sig...
Category
1840s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Feeding the Kittens - Little cat mother -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Albert Fischer-Cörlin (1853 Körlin - 1932 Persante). Feeding the Kittens, 1893. Pencil on painting cardboard, 38 x 29 cm. Signed and dated by the artist at lower left "E[rnst] A[lbert] Fischer=Cörlin 1893".
- Lightly stained, somewhat dusty and minimally foxed.
- Little cat mother -
About the artwork
Daughter, mother and grandmother gather in the sunlight to feed a litter of kittens. The mother and grandmother hold the lively, playful animals in their arms, while the young girl feeds two of the four kittens with cookies. There is also a small bucket of milk and a bowl of milk. The women and the girl watch as the cute, still blind animals eat.
It is a scene taken from everyday life, but it also has an allegorical dimension, bringing maternal care into the representation. Three generations are represented, with the grandmother and the mother already mothers. They not only offer the kittens to the youngest, but also proudly observe the maternal care that the youngest gives to the kittens. Like the kittens, she will grow up and become a mother herself, so the image is also an allegory of life's ever-new beginnings. In keeping with this, the morning sun shines into the picture from the right. Fischer-Cörlin has masterfully worked out the quality of the light, with its light and dark areas, with the pencil used...
Category
1890s Academic Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
$359 Sale Price
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Study of a Man, Old Master Drawing, Figure, Roman Study, Lombard
Located in Greven, DE
Old Master Drawing by the Circle of Lambert Lombard. Drawing/ Study of a Man in Renaissance Style, later signed "F. Floris".
Study of a Man
Lombard li...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
$2,835 Sale Price
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Black dog, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Character from the Mirror - Yellow, Black, Collage, Surrealism
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Character from the Mirror, 2022
Collage, tempera on paper
29.5 H x 21 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper, textiles, pieces of plastic, found or made objects, which intertwine on the paper support and as in a well-controlled and thought puzzle give birth to a new universe.
The new series of collages...
Category
2010s Contemporary Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
1890s Impressionist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$869 Sale Price
20% Off
Joseph Beuys, 1 Wirtschaftswert (Kamillentee) - Signed Readymade
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Hamburg, DE
Joseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986)
1 Wirtschaftswert (Kamillentee), 1977
Medium: Pencil on paper tea bag (readymade)
Dimensions: 12 × 8.5 cm (4 7/10 × 3 3/10 in)
Rarity: Unique artwork...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Old Master Drawing, 17th Century, Italian Art, Peace, Allegory, Love, Dove
Located in Greven, DE
Oak Leaf Peace Wreath with Dove and Serpent
Around 1700
Black chalk on thin, brownish paper
39,8 x 52,7 cm
Inscribed "N" in the centre left
This drawing is probably by an Italian Ar...
Category
17th Century Baroque Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$378 Sale Price
20% Off
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
By Harald Kroner
Located in London, GB
Canto #22 (Abstract work on paper)
Ink, oil on paper - unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
Harald Kröner works thoroughly with paper, of which h...
Category
2010s Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil
Olafur Eliasson, Herbarium - Collage of Dried Water Lilies, Contemporary Art
By Olafur Eliasson
Located in Hamburg, DE
Olafur Eliasson (Danish-Icelandic, b. 1967)
Herbarium, 2021
Medium: Collage of dried and pressed Nympheas Ellisana water lilies (Latour-Marliac) on Lanaquarelle handmade paper, in fl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Handmade Paper
Sunny Day
Located in Oslo, NO
This bright, light watercolor is painted in one breath. Two cats are lying on a blue background, one of them is lazily squinting at the sun. The work is filled with sunlight and a fe...
Category
2010s Realist Germany - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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