Portrait of Two Friends
- Artist
- Max Uhlig, German, born 1937
- Date
- 1984
- Material
- Ink
- made in
- Dresden, Saxony state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- irregular: 24 13/16 x 24 7/16 in. (63 x 62 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Rights
- © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Object Number
- 40:2007
NOTES
A multitude of lines form a memorable portrait of two friends whose features are barely discernable through the clusters of brushstrokes. The artist Max Uhlig strives to express the sitters' interpersonal feelings and conflicts rather than depicting their actual appearances. He creates such works by intensely observing his subjects and using a Chinese brush which has a finer tip and is very suitable for producing line variations. Uhlig was trained in Dresden and worked in East Germany until reunification in 1989.
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