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Paul FW Kuhfuss - The Couple - 1956

Name: Paul FW Kuhfuss - The Couple - 1956
Brand: Kuhfuss, Paul Friedrich Wilhelm
Price: 4750.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

With "The Couple," Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhfuss created a powerful work of great emotional depth in 1956. In tempera and pastel, human intimacy is condensed into a quiet yet intense encounter. This signed single sheet impresses with its expressive use of color and its rare, intimate visual language, thus possessing considerable collector value.

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artist

Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhfuss

Technology & Printing Processes

Tempera and pastel on paper

Details

Year:1956

Size in cm:50 x 72 Image & Sheet

Condition:Good

Special features

Reference:WVZ No. "56/6"

Signature:bottom left

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Information about the work

Image description

Two naked figures lie facing each other in the picture space, loosely connected by touch and gaze. The bodies are softly modeled, their contours dissolving in places into the colored background. Shades of green, blue, and violet flow into one another, enveloping the figures like an atmospheric veil. Light seems not to emanate from outside, but to radiate from within the bodies themselves. The scene appears serene and vulnerable, as if it arose from a fleeting moment of stillness.

Artistic context

The work was created in 1956, during a period in which Kuhfuss was intensively exploring the depiction of humanity and its inner states. Post-war experiences are reflected in the expressive, sometimes fragmented, formal language, which aims less at anatomical accuracy than at emotional truth. The combination of tempera and pastel allows for a surface that is both dense and fragile, in which color and drawing merge inextricably.The coupleThis is typical of Kuhfuss's exploration of intimacy, vulnerability, and interpersonal tension. The dated catalogue raisonné number and the original signature underscore the documentary and collector's value of the work.

Paul FW Kuhfuss

Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhfuss was a 20th-century German artist whose work is characterized by an expressive view of humanity. At the heart of his oeuvre are existential themes such as relationships, loneliness, and physical and emotional presence. Kuhfuss primarily worked on paper, employing techniques like tempera, pastel, and drawing to create immediate, emotionally impactful images. His works are distinguished by a sensitive use of color and a reduced, yet compelling, formal language, occupying a unique position within post-war German art.

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