Karl Fred Dahmen
1917 - 1981
Ohne Titel. 1959.
Mixed media on paper, collaged on cardboard.
Signed in the lower left. Signed and dated on a label on the rear. 61.5 x 48.5 cm (24.2 x 19 in).
[AW/CH].

• In the year he was born, Dahmen was represented at documenta II in Kassel.
• In the late 1950s, the materiality of his works increased significantly, taking on crusty, relief-like surfaces with which the artist processed the destruction and disruption of the earth's surface caused by lignite mining near his hometown.
• Most recently, his artistic work has been honored with a much-discussed retrospective at the Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst in Duisburg and at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Düren.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Sander, Darmstadt (on the back of the frame with the partly handwritten gallery label).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2013).

EXHIBITION: 10 Jahre Galerie Sander 1980-1990, Galerie Sander, Darmstadt, November 9 - December 31, 1990, pp. 36f., cat. no. 12 (illustrated in color).

LITERATURE: Volker Dahmen (ed.), edited by Thomas Weber, K. F. Dahmen. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 1 (1946-1965), Cologne 2003, no. 035-59 - B 0251 (illustrated in color).


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