About The Artist:
Fritz Genkinger
Fritz Genkinger was a German artist . After his youth and training in Nürtingen, he turned to studying art in Karlsruhe, where he was accepted into HAP Grieshaber 's class with well-known artists such as Horst Antes , Heinz Schanz and Hans Martin Erhardt . Extensive and diverse artistic work began that lasted until the end. His Cosmic Figure, created in 1962, is characteristically an artificial figure, reduced to the essentials of life, to...
view artist page
About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.