Franziska von Woyski

Stadtbild (image of the city) Franziska von Woyski, artist living and working in Berlin

The picture depicts the Nicolai quarters in Berlin. It is done with the rare technique used primarily for painting icons. The texture is made up of 'oxidized poliment silver and egg tempera'. In a glance of the building a vivid story is being told. For another part of the city is reflected in this mirror like surface.

Franziska von Woyski does besides work in gold on stones numerous portraits and still lives. Her cityscapes capture this tendency. The use of chrome material lends itself to recapturing the images and materials cities are made up of. It is a material used especially for the construction of sky scrapers or high rise official buildings. The quality of material alters the physiognomy of cities. One needs only to think of that part of Brussels made up by the buildings of the European Commission, in particular the one existing at Place Schuman - a place most familiar to Franziska von Woyski as she lived in Brussels for 23 years.

The perception of the artist is an indication as to what cities are becoming under the impact of new buildings following in their construction modern trends in architecture disposed towards use of certain materials.

Note:

For her other works about cityscapes, see

http://www.goldundkunst.eu/Cityscapes/index.htm

and for her still lifes of cities, see

http://www.goldundkunst.eu/Still%20Life/index.htm

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