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Professor Hermann Dischler
25th September 1866 – 20th March 1935
Hermann Dischler was born on the 25th of September in 1866 in Freiburg i.Br. He received his artistic training in the art school in Karlsruhe, he was student of Gustav Schönleber. Thereafter he was engaged as a painter in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald area.
1894, after he finished his studies, he built himself an artist’s workroom in Freiburg i.Br. At this time he went on a lot of trips and his trusty camera followed him everywhere. Five years later he started to number and comment his artworks, which he collected in 29 «Bildbüchern (books of pictures)».
In the winter months from 1905 to 1907 he stayed in the Todtnauer Hütte, where a lot of his oil studies arise.
The snowy winter landscapes became his typical theme and he called himself «Schneemoler (snowpainter)». 1917 he received his professorship by Grand Duke Friedrich II.
In 1927 he had an exhibition with artists like Curt Liebich, Julius Heffner, Wilhelm Nagel, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer a.o., they called themselves «Die Schwarzwälder (the Black Forests)». He died on the 20th of March in 1935 in Hinterzarten. Today his works are extremely appreciated because the snowy landscape present the untouched nature.
Lit: Exhibition Catalogue Augustiner Museum, Freiburg i.Br., 1993
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Knoebel, Imi i.e. Klaus Wolf
Born 1940 Dessau, lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Six original editions from the cycle «Pure Freude I (pure joy I)».
2005. Acrylic on plastic sheet. Verso each numbered lower right 10/12 as well as the individual sheets numbered «1», «3», «4», «5», «6» und «7» lower left. Sheet 7 additionally signed verso lower middle, dated «2..5 (2005)» as well as inscribed «112+164» lower right. Sheet 1 additionally numbered verso lower right 4/40 and sheet 4 additionally numbered verso lower right 12/10. Verso on the back of the frame each with a printed label with the work's data.
H 50,
Works from an edition of 12 numbered copies.
«Pure Freude» is a punk record label started in 1979 by the landlady of the Düsseldorf punk mecca «Ratinger Hof», artist's wife Carmen Knoebel. «Pure Freude» is the name of a patisserie run by the artist's daughters in Düsseldorf. But «Pure Freude» is also an edition that Imi Knoebel developed as a series since 2001/02, preceded by numerous designs of the same name.
The title «Pure Freude» makes one think of Paul Klee, whose «Theory of the Purity of Colour» defines it as that which remains when all units of measurement disappear. In Knoebel's «Pure Freude» each colour appears monochrome on one element of the overall composition. It thus gains an intensity and freedom that makes it appear autonomous in relation to every other colour in the picture.
Knoebel's role model, Kazimir Malevich, whose Black Square of 1915 is seen by the painter - Knoebel describes himself as a painter rather than an artist - as the origin of modern painting, proclaimed as early as the beginning of the
Provenance: private collection Freiburg i.Br.
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