Art (1945-contemporary) > Abstract Art Post-War Heimrad Prem - Biography
Heimrad Prem
1934 - 1978
Vor Beginn. 1974.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the canvas. 50 x 70 cm (19.6 x 27.5 in). [AW].
• From the group “Still Lifes with Painting Utensils“, a key series in Prem’s oeuvre, created in the mid-1970s.
• Alongside HP Zimmer, Lothar Fischer, and Helmut Sturm, Prem co-founded the artist group “SPUR” in 1958, a collective of artists who lived and worked together in opposition to the rigidity of the post-war period.
• In 1964, he participated in the III. documenta in Kassel.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Klaus Lea, Munich (with the gallery stamp on the reverse of the stretcher).
Private collection, Southern Germany.
Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2013, Ketterer Kunst).
LITERATURE: Margarethe Jochimsen, Pia Dornacher, Heimrad Prem. Retrospektive und Werkverzeichnis, Munich 1995, CR no. 739 (b/w illu. on p. 247).
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Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 404th auction, April 20, 2013, lot 782 (color illu.).
In good condition, colors in fine impression. Slightly soiled in places. The corners of the image are slightly rubbed. There is some craquelure in the black area in the right of the image. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.
backside image.