| Category | Mischtechnik |
|---|---|
| artist | de Vries, Herman |
| year | 2016 |
| Title | from earth: kunsthalle appenzell (ziegelhütte) |
| size 1 |
Sheet
29,7 x 21,0 cm
Frame: 30,8 x 22,1 cm |
| material | Earth on paper |
| edition | Unique |
| signature | Lower left labeled: from earth kunsthalle ziegelhütte appenzell Lower right signed and dated: herman de vries 2016 |
| publication | - |
| Provenance | Private collection Germany |
| rise in value | Works by Herman de Vries are known for rising in value. According to artprice, the value of one piece by Herman de Vries has risen 42.5% in 2025. |
Herman de Vries from earth: kunsthalle appenzell (ziegelhütte) (2016)
- Location-specific unique item
- Winner of the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize 2019
- The interplay between nature and art
- Artists with strong growth in value
€3,200.00*
- The artwork is available immediately and can be viewed at any time in our gallery.
- Ready for shipment within 2 days.
- Free shipping within Germany.
Product number:
38679
Informations
condition
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The Mixed media is in a very good condition Living material that changes as intended by the artist. |
artist
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Herman de Vries was born in 1931 in Alkmaar and began in the 1950s with informal painting, often entirely white, and joined the Dutch nul group and the ZERO milieu. In the 1970s he moved to Eschenau in Franconia and radically shifted his work towards the direct presentation of nature: earth rubbings, plant collections, herbaria and the “earth museum” with thousands of soil samples made nature itself the image carrier. In installations, collages, text works and artists’ books he has since worked with chance, systems of order and minimal artistic intervention in order, as he says, to make “the reality of nature” visible. International exhibitions, including at the Stedelijk Museum, the Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster and in numerous German museums, have made him a key figure in a concept art grounded ecologically and philosophically. Today – decades after his first white paintings – his work appears both rigorous and delicate. Rigorous, because it is based on the radical decision to acknowledge nature as primary reality, and delicate, because it directs the gaze to the smallest traces: a leaf, a handful of earth, a stand of plants that has grown by chance. Herman de vries has made from the observation of nature a quiet yet extremely consistent artistic practice – an art that shows less what the world is than allows us, with the simplest of means, to feel that we are in it. |
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Features and remarks
You are acquiring a site-specific earth rubbing by Herman de Vries. The artist collected soil on location in Appenzell (Ziegelhütte) and rubbed it out for another project, likely for the exhibition at Kunsthalle Regensburg or Schweinfurt in 2016.
De Vries often titles earth rubbings after the collection site, not the exhibition, which is why we read his handwritten pencil note at the bottom left: "from earth: kunsthalle ziegelhütte appenzell".
Herman de Vries' „Erdausreibungen“ (also „earth rubbings“, often within the „from earth“ series) are works in which soil from specific locations is rubbed onto paper, becoming an immediate „trace of a place“ as the image material itself.
At the center of the series is the material earth; de Vries collects vast numbers of soil samples (thousands) and processes them as rubbed pigment traces on paper. The works appear either as individual sheets or more frequently as grid/serial arrangements („grid-arrays“), often with place and date notations as part of the concept.
Site-specific earth rubbings with institutional references („Kunsthalle Appenzell“) are significantly rarer and more sought-after than standard sheets. The provenance from the Ziegelhütte is excellent.