The Seeing of Clouds · 2023

The Seeing of Clouds – Herrischried and Schloss-Nauses

Visus Signatus drawings, 2023

Graphite, pastel, rain, lightning and thunder on paper and wrapping paper, formats up to 234 x 164 cm.

Gerhard Lang drawing The Seeing of Clouds, Herrischried

This part of Gerhard Lang’s landscape work involves him drawing while looking only at the clouds, not at the paper. In his work this traditional method is called Visus Signatus.

More Visus Signatus works:
– The Seeing of Clouds – Domgasse, Vienna
– The Seeing of Clouds 2018–2022
– Contingere Infinitatem
– Seeing the Mountains and Seeing the Clouds
– Nubi Tempora
– Whitestone Pond Series
– Visus Signatus. Gerhard Lang Draws the Process of Seeing his Face
– Visus Signatus. Gerhard Lang Draws the Process of Seeing the Moon

The Seeing of Clouds, the village of Herrischried, Black Forest, Germany, Visus Signatus drawing, pastel on paper, 30/31 July 2023, 232 x 164 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, Herrischried, Visus Signatus drawing, graphite and pastel on paper, 20 July 2023, 232 x 163 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, Herrischried, Visus Signatus drawing, pastel and rain with thunder on paper, 26 July to 7 August 2023, 232 x 146 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, Herrischried, Visus Signatus drawing, graphite and pastel on wrapping paper, 5 August 2023, 232 x 145 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, Herrischried, Visus Signatus drawing, pastel and graphite on paper, 22 July 2023, 232 x 163 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, the village of Schloss-Nauses, Odenwald region, Germany, Visus Signatus drawing, graphite on wallpaper from the early 1970s, 12 June 2023, 66 x 52.2 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, Herrischried, Visus Signatus drawing, graphite on paper, 18 to 20 August 2023, 234 x 148 cm
Detail of the previous work
The Seeing of Clouds, Schloss-Nauses, Visus Signatus drawing, graphite on wallpaper, 5 March 2023, 66 x 52 cm
The Seeing of Clouds, Schloss-Nauses, Visus Signatus drawing, graphite, pastel and rain on paper, 11 November 2023, 150 x 100 cm (detail)

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Credits

Thanks to: Edith and Hans-Fritz Lang, Wolfgang Lang, Margrith and August Künzel, Helmut Aebischer, Domo Baal, Peter Berger, Kathrin Landis and Queenie, Gerhard and Simon Grieshaber, Markus Huber, Lenie and Rosalie, Kristina Liedtke, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Elke Spatz and Rudolf Dascher, Tom Westerdale, Stephan Weyer-Menkhoff. Photos: Gerhard Lang. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024.

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