Bridge Over Brooklyn
<p>New York-based artist Lothar Osterburg’s <em>Bridge over Brooklyn</em> is a much more nostalgic image than Craig McPherson’s haunting mezzotint of New York City, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/73484"><em>Yankee Stadium at Night</em></a>. Osterburg began by building a miniature model, which he photographed through a magnifying lens. By etching this negative onto the printing plate using the 19th-century method of photogravure, he created this highly tonal image. Despite their differing, yet equally labor-intensive and retrospective intaglio processes, Osterburg and McPherson arrive at a similar place through their shared emphasis on palpable texture, the contrast between light and shade, and the powerful darkness of the city at night.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 47.9 × 61.2 cm (18 7/8 × 24 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Lothar Osterburg
Artist
Photography
Lothar Osterburg is a German-born, New York-based artist and master printer in intaglio, who works in sculpture, photography, printmaking and video. He is best known for photogravures featuring rough small-scale models of rustic structures, water and air vessels, and imaginary cities, staged in evocative settings and photographed to appear life-size to disorienting, mysterious or whimsical effect. New York Times critic Grace Glueck writes that Osterburg's rich-toned, retro prints "conjur[e] up monumental phenomena by minimal means"; Judy Pfaff describes his work as thick with film noir–like atmosphere, warmth, reverie, drama and timelessness.
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- Lothar Osterburg
- Year
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 47.9 × 61.2 cm (18 7/8 × 24 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-2007-129330
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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- Status
- verified