Robert Zünd
Buchenwald
1886/87
oil
on linen
119
x 158,8 cm
Kunstmuseum Luzern
On the occasion of a personal exhibition in a gallery in Luzern, Switzerland, I visited the local Museum. Not expecting much I was overthrown by a painting of the "unknown" Robert Zünd.
Kunstmuseum Luzern
On the occasion of a personal exhibition in a gallery in Luzern, Switzerland, I visited the local Museum. Not expecting much I was overthrown by a painting of the "unknown" Robert Zünd.
It was a landscape so
wonderfully and masterly done that it really took time to realize it was
painted. The point of view and the handling of light was overwhelming. Zünd
apparently did only a few of these landscapes without people. Also the
seemingly freely chosen point of view struck me.
Through time my involvement
in painting comes in various forms and with various meanings.
Landscape among them.
My studio in Northern
Italy, the Alta Langhe, is surrounded by woods. They provide linear cuts in a
scape or frame, comparable to the calligraphic paintings of Brice Marden, which
would enable me to see the landscape as an abstract form. Providing the viewer
in the first instant with an ordinary painted landscape in which a closer look
would tell you that the main subject is the division of space through lines and
light. And detail. Close to abstraction.
An article in the catalogue
on Robert Zünd gave me the title “Ideal Real Landscape or Real Ideal
Landscape” for a catalogue on my landscapes produced by Peter Foolen Editions
in 2012.
Willem
Sanders 2013
Willem
Sanders (NL/IT)
Altalanghe 12
2012
watercolour
102
x 66 cm
Courtesy Fondazione Il Fondaco, Bra, Italy
Courtesy Fondazione Il Fondaco, Bra, Italy
Willem
Sanders (NL/IT)
Altalanghe 08
2011
watercolour
75,5
x 106,5 cm
Private
collection, Essen, Germany
(also available as print by Bernard Ruygrok, edition 30/30)
(also available as print by Bernard Ruygrok, edition 30/30)
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