
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.
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- chromogenic print
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- Auction House · Phillips
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September 19, 2017
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