Label & Artist Series
A Pair of Mallards by Manfred Schatz
Each vintage, Paraduxx celebrates an artist-label series with a different artist signature medium and style interpreted through a pair of ducks native to the Pacific Flyway. The 2003 Paraduxx label is the tenth in this series. For this release, German artist Manfred Schatz (1925-2004) created an oil painting of a pair of Mallards, capturing their graceful movement.
Manfred Schatz was born in 1925 in Stettin, Germany. He attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Stettin and the Academy of Pictoral Arts, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Over a dozen cities of the world have exhibited his works, including Hamburg, Munich, London, Dallas, New York, and Las Vegas. He has received every award that can be bestowed by the Republic of Germany on any artist - living or deceased.
The magic of Schatz's paintings lies in his uncanny ability to capture movement. His brush strokes are bold and are set to canvas with a certainty that many artists never acquire. He did not lose himself in the details of the marginal things, but forced the viewer's attention on the main motif as he proposed to express it. He portrayed wildlife as most of us see it - in quick, often shadowy glimpses rather than sharp, bright portraits. He used the viewer's mind as an extension of his brush to supply needed details and avoided them where they're not needed and never seen. His work is inevitably real and alive and the viewer cannot help but react.
Manfred Schatz's work is in the collections of several museums throughout the United States, including the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, New York; the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.
