Lot 1 | Karl Fred Dahmen | Vegetativ

DAHMEN, KARL FRED
1917 Stolberg - 1981 Preinersdorf

Title: Vegetativ.
Date: 1956.
Technique: Colour lithograph on laid paper.
Depiction Size: 61,5 x 44,5cm.
Sheet Size: 65,5 x 50,5cm.
Notation: Recto signed, dated, numbered and titled at the bottom: 11/20 "vegetativ" Dahmen / 56.
Number: 11/20.
Condition: For a status report, please contact Ms Janine Breidenbend at j.breidenbend@van-ham.com.


Printer: Atelier Patrice.

According to WVZ 10 a.p., no edition.

The abstract colour lithograph by Karl Fred Dahmen from 1956 reflects the formal language of Informel. Numerous stays in Paris and regular contacts with Serge Poliakoff and the "École de Paris" flow into Dahmen's work and result in a strong emphasis on vertical and horizontal structures.

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist

Literature:
- Angst, Roland (ed.): Karl Fred Dahmen. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1956-1978, with a foreword by Peter Baum, Munich 1979, WVZ-Nr. 1

VAN HAM Art Estate has represented the artistic estate of Karl Fred Dahmen since 2013.