Joerg ORTNER (1940-2011)
Tholos: the temple
Painter, engraver and designer born in 1940 in Nuremberg, Germany. Austrian artist, Joerg Ortner moved to France in 1961. He then began working at the Lacourière workshop. His first album of engravings "Homage to Paul Celan" appeared in 1963. Twenty years later, he undertook a colossal cycle of seventy-two "Tholoi" prints named after the prehistoric Mesopotamian burials where he rediscovered and deepened his previous themes: horse's head, forest, flight of time, engraved on the columns of Tholos. Ortner has an extensive technical register, from white to black, from black to white by the magic of intaglio cutting and white cutting.
Heliogravure after an etching
Unsigned
On vellum 34.5 x 24 cm
INFORMATION: This photogravure was published by the Crédit Lyonnais Foundation for the Arts in 1990, in direct collaboration with the artist.
Excellent condition with its protective silk sheet bearing the artist's name
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