ERWIN MACKOWIAK "Deborah 75" hyperrealist Pop Art painting, oil on canvas, 1975

MACKOWIAK ERWIN, 'Deborah 75' Pop Art and Hyperrealist painting, oil on canvas, 1975.

Signed at the bottom right, countersigned, dated and titled "Deborah 75" on the back.

A very fine work by the artist; one can feel in this piece the influence of the Belgian painter Félix Labisse.

Very good condition, unrestored.

Dimensions without frame: 100x80cm.
Dimensions with frame: 107x87cm

Biography:
A Belgian painter born in Gladberg, Germany, in 1926, trained at the Düsseldorf Academy, he settled in La Louvière, Belgium, in 1948. He began his career with Surrealism, then Lyrical Abstraction upon arriving in Belgium, before evolving towards Hyperrealism (Figurative). Later, influenced by Pop Art and Photography, he painted blurred, nude female bodies, as if a camera had trembled during the shot. The theme of woman is almost omnipresent in his provocative and sensual work, magnified by delicate chiaroscuro effects.
In the Press: "Her works, with their dreamlike realism, are architecturally constructed. Her compositions are supported by curves that celebrate feminine grace in a sumptuous setting. Her colours dare to create astonishing contrasts with the pearly, bronzed, languid flesh of her models"...

JPB Prize, H. Jacquet Prize, Europe Painting Prize in Ostend, Co-founder of the G.3.

Works acquired by the State and Province of Hainaut and in the Museums of Charleroi, Verviers, Frankfurt, and Gladbeck. Mentioned in BAS II and in "Two Centuries of Signatures of Belgian Artists." Numerous exhibitions, including Brachot in Brussels in 1972.