Dead Moorhen (Dode waterhoen)
Charles Donker Dutch
Not on view
Charles Donker is one of the foremost contemporary Dutch printmakers. He was a member of a group called De Luis (The Louse), a group of graphic artists who in the 60s made works in a surrealist or heightened realist idiom. He has long been fascinated by the natural world. He is well-known for his muted etchings that depict nature and everyday objects. His direct and honest rendering of detail lends a surreal note to many of his works. Birds, both live and dead, are a subject to which Donker often returns in his work. He accompanied this image of a dead moorhen with quotes from the writings of the nineteenth-century German ornithologist Alfred Brehm and James Cook's description of his second voyage.
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