Albert Welti
dal 15/12/2011 al 3/3/2012
Segnalato da
15/12/2011
Albert Welti
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Landscape in pastel. A show of some fifty pastels aims to demonstrate the mature talent of Welti as a draughtsman and painter of landscapes.
Pastel painting, a technique known since the 18th century, had been considered a genre all its own when it was wakened to new life in the last quarter of the 1800s by such artists as Manet, Degas, Redon and Picasso. Manipulating the pastel crayon, a dusty, porous material that can be used on paper to create painterly nuances or spontaneous improvisations, depending on the artist, requires the greatest skill; and yet the technique’s consummation is its union of drawing and painting.
A show of some fifty pastels aims to demonstrate the mature talent of Albert Welti (1862 – 1912) as a draughtsman and painter of landscapes, little masterpieces he called 'pastel nature sketches' in part to distinguish them from the paintings of ideas of his teacher Arnold Böcklin.
Their intensive chromatic effects are the by-product of Welti’s enthusiasm for the virtually irrepressible interaction of light and the human eye. Content right column
Image: Albert Welti, Autumn Wood, around 1900. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen
Opening: 16 december
Kunsthaus Zurich
Heimplatz 1 Zurich
Hours: Sat/Sun/Tues 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Wed–Fri 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Admission free