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Dahmen, Karl Fred
1917 Stolberg - 1981 Preinersdorf.
Untitled. Assembled image.
Assemblage out of cloth tarp, iron lock, wax, cord, saw blades, leather straps and wood, under a glass pane, in a wooden object box. Verso on the backboard signed badly legible, presumably dated (19)73 as well as directional arrow and inscribed «oben (top)». Verso on the backboard inscribed presumably by a different hand «R II/7R» and numbered «7».
H 37,5, W 36, D 7 cm. Object box.
From 1963 onwards, Karl Fred Dahmen's series of montage images took shape. In order to create his three-dimensional works in object boxes behind glass he uses material gathered from the surrounding area and from scrap yards, such as pieces of metal, old car headlights, wood and tied-up leather.
Provenance: private collection Freiburg i.Br.

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