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Maier, Herbert X.
Born 1959 Haslach i. Kinzigtal, lives and works in Freiburg i.Br.
«Raumspeicher (storage space)».
Aquatec on canvas. Signed lower left and dated (19)94. Verso signed again, dated (19)94 and inscribed «Freiburg i.Br.».
H 130, W 140 cm (support). Unframed.
In the years 1993 to 1997, Herbert Maier worked intensively on the subject of surface and space. «And also with block-like figures and emptiness as a body (on the one hand, the recessed yellow zones seem transparent and distant, on the other hand, they are also dense, physical formations that the eye zooms into the large black form again and again).» from: Herbert X. Maier, E-Mail of 14.09.2022.
Authentication: We would like to thank the artist for the authentication via E-Mail, based on photos, 14.09.2022.
Provenance: purchased at Galerie Baumgarten, Freiburg i.Br., in 1994; since then private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Exhibition: Herbert Maier, Freiburg i.Br., Galerie Baumgarten, Heidelberg, Galerie Terbrüggen, Freiburg i.Br., Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, September 1994 until July 1995.
Literature: Galerie Baumgarten (Ed.), Herbert Maier, Waldkirch 1994, No. 46, w/o p. (here with differing title «Leerkörper II (empty body II)»).

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