The work is dedicated especially to the Río de la Plata. With his monumental canvases, Ditsch brings the natural beauty of Argentina to his canvases.
The Argentine painter Helmut Ditsch, Renowned for his monumental paintings inspired by nature and for the record sums paid for them in national art, he unveiled his pictorial tribute inspired by this natural symbol of our geography, using the same technique with which he amazes by painting glaciers, mountains, deserts and the sea. “This work symbolizes my great luck of having been born Argentine,” the artist acknowledges.
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After having twice surpassed the Argentine record for the sale of a work of artthe first time in 2010 with the work inspired by the Atlantic Ocean (El Mar II), whose operation reached US$875,000 (surpassing the mark that Antonio Berni had with “Desocupados); and six years later, revalidating the milestone with the monumental Cosmigonón, which recreates the Perito Moreno glacier (7.30 meters long by 2.73 meters high), bought by another European company for 1.5 million dollars, Now Helmut Ditsch has brought the River Plate to the canvas.


Ditsch carried out the studies for this work according to his working method, immersed in nature, in this case on the river bank, over several days in which the environment and atmosphere of the place allowed him to capture details and contrasts of the natural setting. Ditsch even managed to bring a rainbow to the canvas, giving the work an almost magical factor.
“I had never dared to paint a rainbow. Although it is the dream of most painters since childhood, with the realism of my technique, it is very difficult, almost impossible, because it is about painting light and that is a gift that one is born with. That is why achieving it represented a maximum challenge,” reveals Ditsch.
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The artist twice broke the Argentine record for the sale of a work of art.
Born in 1962 in the district of San Martín, province of Buenos Aires, the young artist left the country in 1988, disappointed with the commercial art world. He emigrated to Austria, the land of his ancestors, to nurture his talent at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
After receiving a major commission from the Austrian National Bank in 1997, he became the focus of attention of numerous European collectors for his large-format nature paintings, most of them inspired by Argentine scenery. Over the years he settled in Ireland and currently resides in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, at the foot of the Alps. He frequently travels to Argentina to meet up with his father and brothers.
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“When I painted it, I thought of my four teenage grandparents who arrived a century ago crossing the Atlantic,” he said of his work.
The work of Río de la Plata, an oil on canvas measuring 86 x 100 cm, represents for the artist a symbol related to European immigration to Argentina and his own family history.
“When I painted it, I thought of my four teenage grandparents who arrived a century ago across the Atlantic, in search of a better life than the one they had in Europe. That beautiful rainbow that appeared that afternoon represents the threshold of hope that illuminated their path and my great luck of having been born Argentine,” Ditsch concludes.
Source: Ambito