Franz Gertsch: Blow-Up - Hardcover

by Franz Gertsch (Artist), Kirsten Degel (Editor), Lærke Rydal Jørgensen (Editor)

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.