D. Witschkanow - ► „Woven Identity“ (XL)
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Daniel Witschkanow presents an original hand-painted portrait titled “Woven Identity” (XL), created in 2025 using acrylics, metallic media and thread techniques on canvas (100 × 70 cm) in black and white, signed by the artist, with a certificate of authenticity and sold with its frame directly from the artist in Germany.
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“Woven Identity” – Original painting No. I
Originales, handgefertigtes Gemälde von Daniel Witschkanow, 2026
A female profile emerges from a dense interweaving of black lines, fine thread traces, and boldly applied planes. The face, neck and shoulder remain clearly recognizable, while individual areas consciously dissolve into abstract movements.
The gaze is calm and inward. The fine lines evoke thoughts, memories and inner connections that lay over the face, erasing the boundary between outward appearance and inner state.
Particularly the contrast between the light background and the deep black densifications gives the work strong presence. From a distance, a clear silhouette appears, while up close numerous individual lines, overlays and structures can be discovered.
Technique:
The painting was created in the artist’s characteristic thread technique. For this, high-quality, highly pigmented acrylic glaze is mixed with selected painting media to achieve a flowing yet controllable consistency.
The color is transferred to the canvas with brush and hand in long threads, loops and dynamic movements. This creates delicate lines, organic overlays and powerful densifications that cannot be exactly repeated.
In addition, broad, gestural brushstrokes were used, which provide depth and weight especially in the shoulder and lower image area. The high-quality acrylic paints impress with intense blacks, high color brilliance and durable quality.
Details
Title: Woven Identity – No. I
Artist: Daniel Witschkanow
Year of origin: 2026
Technique: Acrylic, acrylic glaze, painting medium and thread technique
Support: Canvas on stretcher
Size: 100 × 70 cm
Coloring: Deep black and white
Execution: hand-made unique piece
Signature: signed and dated by the artist
Certificate of authenticity: included
Condition: new and directly from the studio
Original work: no print and no reproduction
The painting will be carefully and securely packed and shipped with tracking via DHL, UPS or DPD within Europe.
Seller's Story
Daniel Witschkanow is a German artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Design and a particular passion for contemporary portrait painting. He early on autodidactically engaged with various painting techniques and sold his first works already at the age of 14. After completing his studies with concentrations in CGI, film and photography, he devoted himself entirely to fine art.
At the center of his work is the human being—not as a mere representation, but as a bearer of emotions, memories and inner tensions. His portraits move between figurative precision and experimental dissolution. This exact tension gives his works a distinctive expressive power and emotional depth.
A central feature of his art is the specialization in the thread technique he further developed as well as the expressive smoky technique. Through targeted use of glazes, painting media and flowing structures, unique surfaces arise where control and chance combine in impressive ways. The color seems to flow across the canvas, to hover, or to dissolve almost texturally into the motif.
Daniel Witschkanow deliberately works experimentally and combines in his works different materials and forms of expression. In addition to acrylic and glaze he also works with watercolor, oil and charcoal, giving his works additional depth, multiplicity and an unmistakable character.
Each work is a unique piece and an expression of an ongoing artistic engagement with identity, transience and the emotional complexity of the human being.
Translated by Google Translate“Woven Identity” – Original painting No. I
Originales, handgefertigtes Gemälde von Daniel Witschkanow, 2026
A female profile emerges from a dense interweaving of black lines, fine thread traces, and boldly applied planes. The face, neck and shoulder remain clearly recognizable, while individual areas consciously dissolve into abstract movements.
The gaze is calm and inward. The fine lines evoke thoughts, memories and inner connections that lay over the face, erasing the boundary between outward appearance and inner state.
Particularly the contrast between the light background and the deep black densifications gives the work strong presence. From a distance, a clear silhouette appears, while up close numerous individual lines, overlays and structures can be discovered.
Technique:
The painting was created in the artist’s characteristic thread technique. For this, high-quality, highly pigmented acrylic glaze is mixed with selected painting media to achieve a flowing yet controllable consistency.
The color is transferred to the canvas with brush and hand in long threads, loops and dynamic movements. This creates delicate lines, organic overlays and powerful densifications that cannot be exactly repeated.
In addition, broad, gestural brushstrokes were used, which provide depth and weight especially in the shoulder and lower image area. The high-quality acrylic paints impress with intense blacks, high color brilliance and durable quality.
Details
Title: Woven Identity – No. I
Artist: Daniel Witschkanow
Year of origin: 2026
Technique: Acrylic, acrylic glaze, painting medium and thread technique
Support: Canvas on stretcher
Size: 100 × 70 cm
Coloring: Deep black and white
Execution: hand-made unique piece
Signature: signed and dated by the artist
Certificate of authenticity: included
Condition: new and directly from the studio
Original work: no print and no reproduction
The painting will be carefully and securely packed and shipped with tracking via DHL, UPS or DPD within Europe.
Seller's Story
Daniel Witschkanow is a German artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Design and a particular passion for contemporary portrait painting. He early on autodidactically engaged with various painting techniques and sold his first works already at the age of 14. After completing his studies with concentrations in CGI, film and photography, he devoted himself entirely to fine art.
At the center of his work is the human being—not as a mere representation, but as a bearer of emotions, memories and inner tensions. His portraits move between figurative precision and experimental dissolution. This exact tension gives his works a distinctive expressive power and emotional depth.
A central feature of his art is the specialization in the thread technique he further developed as well as the expressive smoky technique. Through targeted use of glazes, painting media and flowing structures, unique surfaces arise where control and chance combine in impressive ways. The color seems to flow across the canvas, to hover, or to dissolve almost texturally into the motif.
Daniel Witschkanow deliberately works experimentally and combines in his works different materials and forms of expression. In addition to acrylic and glaze he also works with watercolor, oil and charcoal, giving his works additional depth, multiplicity and an unmistakable character.
Each work is a unique piece and an expression of an ongoing artistic engagement with identity, transience and the emotional complexity of the human being.
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Artist
D. Witschkanow
Edition
Original
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
Yes
Title of artwork
► „Woven Identity“ (XL)
Technique
Acrylic painting, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Germany
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Black, White
Height
100 cm
Width
70 cm
Weight
4 kg
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Abstract
Period
2020+
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