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Flamingos I by Peter Wirth, acrylic on cotton canvas

Fine art prints from the archive of Peter Wirth

PRINTED TO ORDER IN THE UNITED STATES · HAHNEMÜHLE GERMAN ETCHING, 310 GSM · PIGMENT INKS · A WHITE BORDER ON EVERY SHEET

Exhibition billboard outside the Egyptian Museum Berlin, two Peter Wirth posters flanking the bust of Nefertiti, 1993

Berlin, 1993

A museum solo exhibition, and a catalogue text by its director

The Egyptian Museum in Berlin hung Peter Wirth's paintings among the granite columns, a few rooms from the bust of Nefertiti. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wildung, who directed the collection from 1989 to 2009, wrote the catalogue text.

Wirth had not been invited. He had sent the museum his own catalogue of works, unasked, and the exhibition followed from that. It remains the only museum solo exhibition of his career.

The exhibition, in fullSee the Nefertiti series
Peter Wirth at home, 2017

Peter Wirth (1951–2018)

Peter Wirth studied graphic design at the Folkwangschule in Essen and graduated with distinction. He then painted, printed and photographed for forty years, numbering his work by hand into the thousands. Sixteen solo exhibitions between 1977 and 2019; in 1993 the Egyptian Museum in Berlin showed his Nefertiti cycle, with a catalogue text by its director, Dietrich Wildung. Five years running he hung in the Große Kunstausstellung NRW in Düsseldorf. He photographed every painting himself, which is the reason this shop can exist at all.

Open edition. A limitation invented after an artist has died is not a decision he made, so we do not impose one. Every sheet carries a registration number recorded in the archive instead.

His life and exhibitions
Bouquet of Flowers by Peter Wirth, the full sheet with its white margin and printed signature

A certificate with every print

Every sheet ships with a certificate naming the work, the original behind it and your print, with a registration number recorded in our archive.

Red Tulips by Peter Wirth, the full sheet with its white margin and printed signature

Archival materials

Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 gsm, acid-free and made for pigment printing. Printed with pigment inks in the United States.

White Roses I by Peter Wirth, the full sheet with its white margin and printed signature

Nothing is cropped

Every sheet carries a white border, and the artwork sits inside it at its own proportions. Nothing is trimmed to fit the paper.

Red Tulip by Peter Wirth, the full sheet with its white margin and printed signature

Free US shipping

Free standard shipping on every order within the United States. Framed prints and unframed sheets both arrive flat and protected, never rolled.