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Colour silkscreen on paper Germany, 1990 Rainer Fetting (b. 1949) - German painter and sculptor Signed, dated and numbered lower right 'Fetting 90' and '21/60' Image size: 68.5 x 87 cm Good condition Provenance: German private collection, Berlin Comparable works by Rainer Fetting reach up to 2,500 at international auctions This colour silkscreen was created in 1990 by the German painter and sculptor Rainer Fetting (born 1949). The dominating colours of the abstracted composition are ochre and purple. Two faces that are kissing emerge from broad brushstrokes. The artist was a member of the provocative art group Junge Wilde in Berlin in the eighties, and still today his broad expressive brushstrokes affirm the fast, gestic painting that he and his peers employed. The colour silkscreen is signed on the lower right in pencil 'Fetting 90', and numbered '21/60'. The condition of the work is good, besides age-related signs of wear, like lacerations in the margin, yellowed edges, creased paper, and watermarks in the lower right corner. A piece of ca. 2 cm size is missing in the lower right corner. The image size is 68.5 x 87 cm, and the paper is 75 x 95.5 cm large. Rainer Fetting (b. 1949) Rainer Fetting first completed an apprenticeship as carpenter and stage designer, before he began studying at the Berlin University of the Arts. He opened the Galerie am Moritzplatz together with a group of Berlin artists, which later also formed the artist movement Junge Wilde. In his early active period, he concentrated on cityscapes and the Berlin wall as a subject. A DAAD scholarship enabled a study trip to New York in 1978. Later, he began incorporating pieces of wood into his images, and to work in bronze. A great example of this is the Willy Brandt statue for the SPD headquarters in Bonn, today located in Berlin.