Franz Gertsch: Blow-Up
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Exploring Gertsch's photorealistic process from paintings to woodblock prints
Published with Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
For his photorealistic approach, Swiss artist Franz Gertsch (1930-2022) projected slides onto a large canvas, painting over the image to create a slightly mysterious replica. Later in his career, he took this process a step further by turning his photographic references into woodcuts, a painstaking task that produced breathtakingly lifelike results.
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