D. Witschkanow - ► „Fractured Desire“ № I
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Daniel Witschkanow presents Fractured Desire № I, a 2025 original acrylic/mixed-media portrait on canvas (70 × 50 cm, 3 kg) signed by the artist and sold with frame, produced in Germany in excellent condition.
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“Fractured Desire” – Original Painting No. I
Original, handmade painting by Daniel Witschkanow, 2026
About the image:
An intense portrait emerges from a dense mesh of black lines and seems to dissolve again into the white of the painting’s ground. The face remains clearly recognizable, yet is not closed, but fragmented, overlapped, and traversed by a nervous, almost pulsating movement.
Particularly the asymmetric effect of the face gives the work a strong psychological tension. One half of the face appears more condensed, darker, and heavier, while the other half remains more open and airy. This creates the impression of an inner split between proximity and distance, control and decay.
Fine dark red accents provide additional emotional impulses and break through the monochrome strictness of the image. They read as traces of memory, injury, or desire and amplify the immediate, raw expressiveness of this portrait.
Technique:
The painting was created in the artist’s characteristic thread technique. For this, a high-quality, highly pigmented acrylic glaze is mixed with selected painting mediums until a flowable yet controllable consistency is achieved. In this way, fine, dynamic, and precisely placed lines can be built up.
The color is applied to the canvas with brush and hand in long threads, loops, and spontaneous movements. This creates organic condensations, linear overlays, and open spaces that cannot be identically repeated and give the work its unmistakable handwriting.
Premium acrylic paints and acrylic glazes with intense pigmentation, vivid color brilliance, and durable quality are used. The combination of controlled technique, free movement, and emotional directness makes this work a powerful, expressive unique piece.
Details
Title: Fractured Desire – No. I
Artist: Daniel Witschkanow
Year of creation: 2026
Technique: Acrylic, acrylic glaze, painting medium, and thread technique
Support: Canvas on stretcher frame
Size: 70 × 50 cm
Color scheme: Deep black, white, and dark red
Execution: handmade 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
Secure shipment 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“Fractured Desire” – Original Painting No. I
Original, handmade painting by Daniel Witschkanow, 2026
About the image:
An intense portrait emerges from a dense mesh of black lines and seems to dissolve again into the white of the painting’s ground. The face remains clearly recognizable, yet is not closed, but fragmented, overlapped, and traversed by a nervous, almost pulsating movement.
Particularly the asymmetric effect of the face gives the work a strong psychological tension. One half of the face appears more condensed, darker, and heavier, while the other half remains more open and airy. This creates the impression of an inner split between proximity and distance, control and decay.
Fine dark red accents provide additional emotional impulses and break through the monochrome strictness of the image. They read as traces of memory, injury, or desire and amplify the immediate, raw expressiveness of this portrait.
Technique:
The painting was created in the artist’s characteristic thread technique. For this, a high-quality, highly pigmented acrylic glaze is mixed with selected painting mediums until a flowable yet controllable consistency is achieved. In this way, fine, dynamic, and precisely placed lines can be built up.
The color is applied to the canvas with brush and hand in long threads, loops, and spontaneous movements. This creates organic condensations, linear overlays, and open spaces that cannot be identically repeated and give the work its unmistakable handwriting.
Premium acrylic paints and acrylic glazes with intense pigmentation, vivid color brilliance, and durable quality are used. The combination of controlled technique, free movement, and emotional directness makes this work a powerful, expressive unique piece.
Details
Title: Fractured Desire – No. I
Artist: Daniel Witschkanow
Year of creation: 2026
Technique: Acrylic, acrylic glaze, painting medium, and thread technique
Support: Canvas on stretcher frame
Size: 70 × 50 cm
Color scheme: Deep black, white, and dark red
Execution: handmade 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
Secure shipment 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
► „Fractured Desire“ № I
Technique
Acrylic painting, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Germany
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Black, White
Height
70 cm
Width
50 cm
Weight
3 kg
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Abstract
Period
2020+
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