Description
Tiger Portrait for Richi Spira, watercolor on handmade paper
34 x 49 cm
Donation by Richard Spira, now in the collection of the Atelier Fritz Hug
Creation year
1978
Fritz was incredibly good at painting eyes. You look into the eyes of an animal and believe you can see its soul behind them. He mostly achieved this feat with oil paintings, because the rather fleeting technique of charcoal drawing and watercolor does not lend itself to such details. This tiger from the Collection Richard Spira is an exception: not just any tiger, but this one individual casts its not really benevolent gaze at the viewer.