Picture "Gallop Race, Finish" (2019) (Unique piece)
Picture "Gallop Race, Finish" (2019) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | oil on canvas | framed | size 60 x 80 cm
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Picture "Gallop Race, Finish" (2019) (Unique piece)
This painting from 2019 deals with the subject of horse racing, which has inspired numerous artists of past epochs to create a wide variety of works. Inevitably, one cannot help but think of the dynamic depictions of the subject by Max Liebermann or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Oil on canvas, 2019. Signed and dated. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 60 x 80 cm as shown.
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About André Krigar
André Krigar (born in 1952) studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts and, along with Christoph Bouet and Ben Kamili, belongs to the new school of German plein air painters. His paintings depict everyday scenes using impasto and light brushstrokes that are brought directly onto the canvas – confusingly colourful, realistic and so expressive, typical of Krigar's style.
Since 1992, Krigar has belonged to the artist group of the North German Realists. Together they engaged in various painting campaigns, for example on board of the German Navy ship the Gorch Fock, at the Hamburg Airport, in the Federal Council Building of Germany called the Bundesrat or in the trenches of the First World War at Hartmannsweiler Kopf. André Krigar was awarded the Rembrandt Painting Award in 2008.
Depiction of typical scenes from daily life in painting, with distinctions between rural, bourgeois, and courtly genres.
The genre reached its peak and immense popularity in Dutch paintings of the 17th century. In the 18th century, especially in France, the courtly and gallant painting became prominent, while in Germany, a more bourgeois character developed.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.