Luc Tuymans | De transformatie van de berg 1990

Luc Tuymans

De transformatie van de berg - 1990 [cat. 2]

Year:1990
Type:Print
Size29.00 x 42.00 cm (20.00 x 27.00 cm)
Edition of:100
Edited by:vzw Platteau - Gent
Printed by:Roger Vandaele, Antwerpen
Paper:lnkjet print on paper, laminated on white pasteboard
Signature:Signed and numbered in pencil on lower right, in print 'Luc Tuymans, De transformatie van de berg'
Available:Not available
Enquire about this work

De transformatie van de berg

This edition is based on a preliminary drawing for the painting ‘De wandeling’ from 1993.

The image closely follows a movie still from a Nazi propaganda movie and pictures Hitler and Albert Speer walking down the mountain. Hitler always made the same walk with the visitors in Berchtesgaden, from the Eagle’s Nest to the teahouse in the valley. A car would pick up them for going back up.

The mountain concerned is the Watzman, the third highest peak in Germany. The winter landscape in backlight of the movie still and the painting correspond with a typical landscape of the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, not coincidentally Hitler’s favourite painter. In this preliminary study, Tuymans gives the scene a Spilliaert atmosphere. Spilliaert was a source of inspiration for the young Tuymans. 

Video

Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today.


This work seems to be unavailable at the moment.
Let us know if you're interested in it and we will search for an available edition for you.

Do you own this artwork and are you looking to sell it?
Send us an image and the details and we will send you a proposal to offer it on our website.