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Born in Belfort, France, near the Alsatian border, Bernard Gantner was a virtuosic master of traditional landscape depiction. He studied at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and achieved an international career breakthrough when he was awarded the coveted Prix de la Critique in 1961.
Gantner is highly celebrated for his atmospheric winter landscapes and is considered an institutional master of lithography, hand-pulling limited-edition impressions directly onto stone blocks from his studio. His works reside in major civic, private, and museum collections across Europe and the United States.
Gantner's body of work is globally recognized for its profound poetic stillness and architectural precision. Rather than using aggressive brushwork, his style favors fine, sketch-like contour lines combined with fluid, watercolour-like washes. This original colour lithograph perfectly embodies his signature thematic material: a quiet, snow-covered French village settled beneath a heavy, forested mountain ridge. The central white church with its distinctively rounded dome clock tower stands out against the muted terracotta rooftops. The foreground showcases bare winter trees and a weathered fence post tracing along an open snowfield. The moody, sweeping teal-grey sky evokes the heavy atmosphere of a settling winter storm, demonstrating Gantner’s legendary command over light, scale, and quiet isolation.
• Title: Village sous la Neige (Winter Landscape with Village)
• Medium: Original Fine Colour Lithograph on Wove Paper
• Edition Number: Limited Edition 123 / 130 (Hand-numbered in graphite lower left)
• Signature: Hand-signed by the artist lower right (In pencil "Gantner")
• Provenance: From Strasbourg, France
• Presentation: Framed behind protective glass within a double-tiered custom conservation mat board,
framed 59 x 40cm Artwork 45 x 21cm
- Color
- Blue
- Style
- Vintage
- Material
- Paper
- Condition
- Excellent
- Dimensions (cm)
- W 59D 1H 40
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