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Urban, Rolf
Born 1958 Bretten, lives and works ibid.
Untitled.
Unique colour linocut on strong paper. Signed lower right and dated 1990.
H 145, W 108 cm (sheet). Framed.
«[For Rolf Urban, the linocut technique] combines the precision of drawing with the possibilities of painting and leads to distinctly pictorial results. Contributing to this is also the dimension of the picture format, which approaches that of panel paintings. After a plan sketch, which determines the compositional weights, the realisation of the motif on the plate begins. [...] Only the use of coloured inks in numerous printing processes, which are repeated until the desired tone is achieved, imparts spatial complexity and a differentiated colouristic effect to the subject. Irregular consistency of the paint, slight shifting of the surfaces creates delicate transparency and painterly blurriness. The gradual condensation of the pictorial idea corresponds with the iconographic openness of the formal components of the composition. References to landscape and still life emerge.» from: Vereinigung der Freunde der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe e.V. (Ed.), Rolf Urban, Linolschnitt-Unikate, Karlsruhe 1990, p. 3.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Baumgarten, Freiburg i.Br., in 1991; since then private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Literature: Vereinigung der Freunde der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe e.V. (Ed.), Rolf Urban, Linolschnitt-Unikate, Karlsruhe 1990, p. 9 - 20 (cf.).

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