D. Witschkanow - ► „Silent Tension - Dark Side“ № I
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Original hand-signed acrylic and mixed-media portrait by Daniel Witschkanow, titled 'Silent Tension - Dark Side' № I, created in 2025, sold with a frame.
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“Silent Tension - Dark Side” – Original Painting No. I
Original, handmade painting by Daniel Witschkanow, 2026
About the image:
An expressive portrait emerges from a dense mesh of black lines and densities. The face remains clearly recognizable, yet not completely closed, but composed of thoughts, emotions, and movement. It is precisely this that creates a strong tension between figurative presence and abstract dissolution.
The slightly raised head and the hand on the chest give the figure a calm, yet intensely radiant presence. The expression appears vulnerable, inward-looking, and almost searching. The work conveys the impression of a quiet inner moment between tension, yearning, and self-perception.
The reduced color palette of deep black and white intensifies the subject’s expressiveness. From a distance the figure appears closed; up close, a complex network of fine lines, overlaps, and open spaces is revealed. Thus the painting gains depth and lives from its immediate, emotional impact.
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 until a flowable yet precisely controllable consistency is achieved. This mixture allows lively, fine, and dynamic linework.
The color is transferred to the canvas with brush and hand in long threads, loops, and spontaneous movements. This creates organic structures, dense consolidations, and open linear planes that cannot be identically repeated. Each trace bears the artist’s direct handwriting.
High-quality acrylic paints and acrylic glazes with intense pigmentation, strong color brilliance, and durable quality are used. The combination of controlled technique and free movement gives the work its special depth. Each painting is a handcrafted unique piece.
Details
Title: Silent Tension – No. I
Artist: Daniel Witschkanow
Year of creation: 2026
Technique: Acrylic, acrylic glaze, painting medium, and thread technique
Support: Canvas on a stretcher frame
Size: 80 × 50 cm
Color scheme: Deep black and white
Execution: handmade unique piece
Signature: signed and dated by the artist
Authenticity certificate: included
Condition: new and straight from the studio
Original work: no prints and no reproductions
Safe shipping 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“Silent Tension - Dark Side” – Original Painting No. I
Original, handmade painting by Daniel Witschkanow, 2026
About the image:
An expressive portrait emerges from a dense mesh of black lines and densities. The face remains clearly recognizable, yet not completely closed, but composed of thoughts, emotions, and movement. It is precisely this that creates a strong tension between figurative presence and abstract dissolution.
The slightly raised head and the hand on the chest give the figure a calm, yet intensely radiant presence. The expression appears vulnerable, inward-looking, and almost searching. The work conveys the impression of a quiet inner moment between tension, yearning, and self-perception.
The reduced color palette of deep black and white intensifies the subject’s expressiveness. From a distance the figure appears closed; up close, a complex network of fine lines, overlaps, and open spaces is revealed. Thus the painting gains depth and lives from its immediate, emotional impact.
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 until a flowable yet precisely controllable consistency is achieved. This mixture allows lively, fine, and dynamic linework.
The color is transferred to the canvas with brush and hand in long threads, loops, and spontaneous movements. This creates organic structures, dense consolidations, and open linear planes that cannot be identically repeated. Each trace bears the artist’s direct handwriting.
High-quality acrylic paints and acrylic glazes with intense pigmentation, strong color brilliance, and durable quality are used. The combination of controlled technique and free movement gives the work its special depth. Each painting is a handcrafted unique piece.
Details
Title: Silent Tension – No. I
Artist: Daniel Witschkanow
Year of creation: 2026
Technique: Acrylic, acrylic glaze, painting medium, and thread technique
Support: Canvas on a stretcher frame
Size: 80 × 50 cm
Color scheme: Deep black and white
Execution: handmade unique piece
Signature: signed and dated by the artist
Authenticity certificate: included
Condition: new and straight from the studio
Original work: no prints and no reproductions
Safe shipping 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
► „Silent Tension - Dark Side“ № I
Technique
Acrylic painting, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Germany
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Black, White
Height
80 cm
Width
50 cm
Weight
4 kg
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Abstract
Period
2020+
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