Artist:
Ascan Pinckernelle (born 1970 in Hamburg, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany).

Materials:
Graphite, tempera, and oil on canvas.

Description:
Painting of Heinrich Müller’s Laubenganghaus building from 1930-1 in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

“The actual artistic investigation starts with photographs and sketches at various times of day, and with research into architectural history. Then a precise elevation is drawn on tracing paper and finally transferred onto paper in classical Indian ink. Pinckernelle ‘abstracts’ the building from its urban surroundings, feeling his way through its structural features with layers of transparents to dark grey ink.”
—Minimalism and After III: New Acquisitions (Berlin: Daimler Contemporary Berlin), 68.