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Rolf, Fred
Born 1940 Bielefeld, lives and works in Freiburg i.Br. and Le Clerjus.
«Raffael».
Oil on canvas. Verso signed, dated «10.10.11» and «12/11» as well as titled.
H 110, W 110 cm (support). Unframed.
Work from Fred Rolf's extensive cycle «Streifenbilder (striped pictures)».
«Lines - Fred Rolf calls them stripes - were, alongside colour field painting, a theme that constantly challenged him and grew from many years of work as an architect. The first published painting was created in 1998, a striped painting on a wooden board from the construction industry. From the beginning it was clear to him that he would only work with oil paint - diluted at first, later straight from the tube. First on paper, then wood, chipboards, steel plates or even found objects, Fred Rolf produced a great variety with a similar structure. He also developed palette knife works on canvas or wooden panels. Rolf experimented a lot - for example, from 2006 onwards with horizontal structures and impasto brushstrokes. Different widths and long colour-coordinated dividing stripes were inserted. Thus, wet-on-wet works in oil paint were created on wood or canvas.» from: Joachim Frommherz, Künstler auf einer Linie, in: Badische Zeitung, 18.12.2015.
Provenance: studio of the artist; since then private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Catalogue raisonné: Rolf (https://fredrolf.de/galerie/streifenbilder/).

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