The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Untitled
2001
(German, b. 1963)
Sheet: 76.8 x 54 cm (30 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Freiwald's approach to painting portraits is unique. Working as other artists have for centuries, he paints small-scale sketches and studies of his subject from a live model. But then, breaking from tradition, he dispenses with the model, sets his studies aside, and executes his monumental watercolors solely from memory. In this way, Freiwald creates a work that seems simultaneously realistic and dreamlike. Untitled is reminiscent of a passport picture, but Freiwald used a successive series of watercolor washes to impart an otherworldly glow to the figure's simplified features. A contemplative portrait, Untitled is equally expressive of the mind of the artist. The drawing encourages reflection on the nature of portraiture, identity, and personal memory.- Snyder, Jill, Charles Venable, "Cutting Edges, Past and Present", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 01, January 2006 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4 archive.org
- Drawn, Exposed, and Impressed: Recent Works on Paper from the Cleveland Museum of Art. MOCA Cleveland, OH (January 20-May 7, 2006).MOCA Cleveland (1/20/2006 - 5/7/2006): "Drawn, Exposed, and Impressed: Recent Works on Paper from the Cleveland Museum of Art," no catalogue.
- {{cite web|title=Untitled|url=false|author=Till Freiwald|year=2001|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2002.13