Original Lithograph, 2003
Günther Uecker   Master Artists

Print : lithography · 68 x 49 x 1 cm 26.8 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch

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Print : numbered and limited to 40 copies

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68 x 49 x 1 cm 26.8 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth

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An exceptional signed and numbered colour lithograph by the internationally celebrated German artist Günther Uecker,. This edition perfectly reflects Uecker's unmistakable visual language, transforming rhythm, texture and movement into a powerful abstract composition.

Signed and dated in pencil lower right.

Numbered in pencil lower left.

From a limited edition of only 40.

The composition evokes a swirling galaxy filled with countless stars and celestial energy. The rhythmic arrangement of gestural marks creates the impression of an ever-expanding universe, inviting the viewer to contemplate infinity, movement and the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

Sheet size approx. 68 x 49 cm.

The work is offered unframed.

Handmade, custom framing is available upon request through our professional framing workshop, offering a wide range of styles, colors, and materials.

Günther Uecker (1930–2025) was one of Germany's most influential post-war artists and a leading figure of the ZERO movement. Internationally renowned for his iconic nail reliefs, paintings, prints and installations, Uecker devoted his career to exploring light, movement, rhythm and spirituality through tactile surfaces and repetitive structures.

His works are represented in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Modern, London, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

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Günther Uecker, Original Lithograph
Germany  • 1930

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Uecker was born in Wendorf, Mecklenburg. Uecker began his artistic education in 1949 when he took up studies at Wismar. He then went to the art school in Berlin-Weißensee and in 1955 to Düsseldorf, where he studied under Otto Pankok at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1956 he began using nails in his art.

Uecker met the group Zero with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in 1960, artists who propagated a new beginning of art in opposition to the German Informel. He occupied himself with the medium of light, studied optical phenomena, series of structures and the realms of oscillation that actively integrate the viewer and enable him to influence the visual process by kinetic or manual interference.

Uecker, Mack and Piene began working together in joint studios at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1962 and installed a 'Salon de Lumière' at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Other 'light salons' followed in Krefeld and in Frankfurt. Since 1966, after the group Zero dissolved and a last joint exhibition, Uecker increasingly used nails as an artistic means of expression—a material that, until today, stands in the centre of his oeuvre.

At the beginning of the 1960s he began hammering nails into pieces of furniture, musical instruments and household objects, and then he began combining nails with the theme of light, creating his series of light nails and kinetic nails and other works. a-x Zero Garden from 1966, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates his use of nails to create the illusion of movement. Light and electricity continued to be one of the main subjects and natural materials such as sand and water were included in his installations, resulting in an interaction of the different elements to create a sensation of light, space, movement and time.

Uecker's oeuvre includes painting, object art, installations as well as stage designs and films. His origins explain his interest in the eastern European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, but he is likewise interested in Asian cultures and their ideas. His works can be seen in collections and large fairs in the West as well as the East. Uecker's artistic creativity reaches a climax in 2000 in the prayer room he designs for the rebuilt Reichstag building in Berlin.

Uecker taught from 1974 until 1995 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was promoted to professor in 1976. Halina Jaworski was his first master student (Meisterschülerin).

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