2067
Dahmen, Karl Fred
1917 Stolberg - 1981 Preinersdorf.
Untitled.
Mixed media with oil on burlap. Signed lower right. Verso signed again, dated 1961, as well as directional arrow and inscribed «oben (up)».
H 52, W 48,5 cm (support). Gallery frame.
This work belongs to the group of paintings resembling walls that Karl Fred Dahmen created from 1960 onwards. During this period, he experimented with omitting, scratching and excavating the material, as a result of which the works became increasingly relief- and collage-like. The incentive for producing this group was Dahmen's preoccupation with the landscape in the Stolberg area, which at that time looked increasingly desolate and disfigured due to lignite mining.
Authentication: We would like to thank Mr Thomas Weber, author of the catalogue raisonné, Cologne, for the verbal authentication, based on photos, 17.09.2020.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Regio, March; since then private collection Müllheim in the Markgräflerland.
Archive: This work is registered by Thomas Weber in the archive Karl Fred Dahmen, Cologne.

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