Katharina Von Werz
Ohne Titel (Landschaft)
Artist
Katharina Von Werz
Additional Description
Öl auf Malpappe. (19)93. Ca. 80,5 x 100,5 cm. Signiert und datiert unten rechts.
Period
(1940 München)
Technique
Paintings
Provenance
Privatsammlung, Süddeutschland.
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Description
With "Untitled (Landscape)" from 1993, Katharina von Werz shows her energetic, gesturally charged painting, which does not depict landscape in the classical sense, but makes it emotionally and atmospherically tangible. Layers of colour in green, blue, ochre and bright white are superimposed in lively movement and form a multi-layered picture surface reminiscent of vegetative structures, wind movement or topographical compression.
Characteristic of von Werz's work is this expressive approach to colour and space, which always oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Her painting is based on the power of the gesture, on a physically experienced rhythm that manifests itself in traces, lines and ductus. She avoids any illustrative moment in favour of an inner pictorial logic that arises from colour, surface and movement. The work is exemplary of von Werz's continuous exploration of nature, perception and painterly expression – themes that she has pursued with great consistency since the 1980s.
Works by Katharina von Werz can be found in renowned public collections, including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich.
Characteristic of von Werz's work is this expressive approach to colour and space, which always oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Her painting is based on the power of the gesture, on a physically experienced rhythm that manifests itself in traces, lines and ductus. She avoids any illustrative moment in favour of an inner pictorial logic that arises from colour, surface and movement. The work is exemplary of von Werz's continuous exploration of nature, perception and painterly expression – themes that she has pursued with great consistency since the 1980s.
Works by Katharina von Werz can be found in renowned public collections, including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich.