Peter Fetthauer (1944) - Ohne Titel

Peter Fetthauer, Landscape, hand-signed and dated, copper engraving 1967
Artist: Peter Fetthauer
Title: Untitled, Landscape
Condition: Very good
Technique: copper engraving
Width: 38.8 cm
Height: 52.8 cm
Framing: Unrestrained
Material: paper
Year: 1967
Signature: Signed (pencil)
Country: Germany
Era: 1960-1970

Landscape
Sheet size approx. 38.8 × 52.8 cm. Image size approx. 24.8 × 22.5 cm.

Very good condition (see illustrations).
Text beneath the motif in pencil; signature and date: 'Peter Fetthauer 67'.
Text at the bottom left of the front, in pencil: '168 A2'.
Text bottom right on the front side in pencil: 'Scharff Lud z'.

Peter Fetthauer (born February 14, 1944 in Wilhelmshaven) is a Hamburg-based artist who works as a painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor, and often appears under the signature name 'PEFE'. He became particularly well known for woodcuts and wooden sculptures, in which he engages intensively with figuration.
Fetthauer studied from 1963 to 1967 at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg (today the Department of Design), Free Graphic (including studies with Gisela Bührmann). In addition to his own artistic work, his craftsmanship in printmaking is also noteworthy: he worked as a printer, among others, for Horst Janssen, Paul Wunderlich, Marino Marini, and Rolf Nesch; for Paul Wunderlich he printed exclusively drypoint etchings.
Peter Fetthauer lives and works in Hamburg and is a member of the XYLON Woodcutters' Association. His body of work includes paintings, drawings, prints (including etchings and lithographs) as well as sculptures (wood, stone, and steel).