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Florian Maier-Aichen — Nacht im Riesengebirge (Night in the Riesengebirge)
Florian Maier-Aichen

Nacht im Riesengebirge (Night in the Riesengebirge)

2011

A vast and brooding nocturnal landscape unfolds across this large-scale chromogenic print, depicting the Riesengebirge mountain range shrouded in deep shadow and atmospheric darkness. Maier-Aichen manipulates photographic processes to heighten the drama of the scene, blending documentary realism with a painterly, almost Romantic sensibility reminiscent of 19th-century German landscape tradition. The resulting image hovers between the factual and the imagined, evoking both the sublime grandeur of nature and an unsettling sense of the uncanny.

Medium
chromogenic print

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Florian Maier-Aichen, Nacht im Riesengebirge (Night in the Riesengebirge), 2011

A vast and brooding nocturnal landscape unfolds across this large-scale chromogenic print, depicting the Riesengebirge mountain range shrouded in deep shadow and atmospheric darkness. Maier-Aichen manipulates photographic processes to heighten the drama of the scene, blending documentary realism with a painterly, almost Romantic sensibility reminiscent of 19th-century German landscape tradition. The resulting image hovers between the factual and the imagined, evoking both the sublime grandeur of nature and an unsettling sense of the uncanny.

Medium
chromogenic print
Year
2011
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

German Artist, Photography, Landscape Photography, Moody Atmosphere, Male Artist, Night Scene, Nocturnal Scene, Fine Art Photography, Emerging Artist, Landscape, Contemporary Artist, Contemporary Photography, Chromogenic Print, 21st Century, Mountain Landscape, Dark Moody Tones, Dark Moody, Romantic Sublime, Cool Color Palette

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