작품 상세

acrylic on canvas, monogrammed bottom right, signed, dated and titled - verso, 9,4x11,8 inch, Robert Hammerstiel, who was born in 1933 in Banat to a German emigrant father, was one of the few contemporary artists in the 60’s who almost explicitly worked with the woodcut technique. His traumatic childhood experiences caused his colour palette to be very dark and steamy. 1988 marks a clear change in his oeuvre, and this thanks to his journey to New York, from which point Robert Hammerstiel paves the new artists ways. He is impressed by the Manhattan which causes him drastically to brighten up colours in his paintings and to change their form. Extremely glaring colorfulness connects him to US-Pop-Art, in contrast to which, though, he puts the magical to the fore of his thematic oeuvre. Typical for his works are nearly secretive, faceless, edgy figures which are reduced in their way of being and movement to their contours, although the bodies overlap. RefCon30418