Franz Gertsch

Schwarzwasser I, Detail 8, schwarz
1992

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Woodcut on Japan paper

Image: 40 × 36 cm | 15 3/4 × 14 1/4 in
Sheet: 48 × 42 cm | 19 × 16 1/2 in

Signed and numbered »13/20« on the verso

Edition of 20

Published as an annual edition by Kunsthalle Bern 1992

Interim Catalogue Raisonné by Mason 2013 no. 12H

Provenance

Private Collection Bern

Exhibitions

Museum Sinclair-Haus/Altana Kulturstiftung, "Franz Gertsch Holzschnitte. Aus der Natur gerissen", Bad Homburg 2013

Literature

Andrea Firmenich/Johannes Janssen (ed.), "Franz Gertsch Holzschnitte. Aus der Natur gerissen", exhib.-cat. Museum Sinclair-Haus/Altana Kulturstiftung, Cologne 2013, p. 68 + 120

About Franz Gertsch

Starting with photographs, Franz Gertsch explores new dimensions in woodcuts. As the most important contemporary Swiss artist, he achieved his international breakthrough in 1972 at documenta 5 in Kassel.