Landung einer mausköpfigen Amphora, Gerhard Altenbourg
Gerhard Altenbourg
Landung einer mausköpfigen Amphora
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Gerhard Altenbourg

Landung einer mausköpfigen Amphora, 1969


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536 x 317 mm
Physical Description
Watercolour, Mussini oil paint and Pitt crayon over woodcut over pencil on laid paper
Inventory Number
17125
Object Number
17125 Z
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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Gerhard Altenbourg drew the curved contours of an amphora – an antique vase-like vessel – over a rectangular woodcut. He gave the vessel’s neck a form that reminded him of a mouse. He enclosed the rectangle in an undulating white and pale blue shape, added two little legs at the bottom, and painted the surrounding surface with reddish watercolour. The depiction plays with the memory of the red- and black-figured antique clay vessels the artist was well acquainted with from regular visits to the Lindenau Museum in his native Altenburg.

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26.11.2024