

Curatorial Narrative Feliks Jabczyski’s “Bridge over a channel” (1919-1920) occupies a pivotal position within the early 20th-century avant-garde landscape. The artist’s minimalist idiom, characterized by a strict linear brushwork and an austere palette of orange, black, and white, serves as a deliberate rejection of romanticized naturalism in favor of a more radical, modernist ethos. Jabczyski’s work participates in the development of the new objectivity movement, wherein artists sought to strip their subjects of subjective embellishments and instead emphasize the raw, material presence of the world.Upon enlargement to 57×44 inches, “Bridge over a channel” reveals itself as a masterful exercise in spatial rhythm and chromatic structure. The linear brushwork orchestrates a sense of depth and layering, with the bridge’s structural components receding into the background while the foregrounded landscape unfolds with a gradual build-up
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