Überbrückte Kontinente. 1960.
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated “7.I.1960” on the reverse. Here inscribed with the number “ACK 7190” in the lower right. 47.5 x 30.5 cm (18.7 x 12 in).

The Barcode of Life – The Hans Braun Collection
More works from the collection are offered in our Contemporary Art Day Sale on Saturday, December 7, 2024.

• Surface and form coexist in harmony in a radiant color.
• Max Ackermann is one of the great advocates and pioneers of abstract painting in Germany, to which he devoted himself entirely from the 1950s onwards.
• Shortly after the work was created in 1964, the artist was honorary guest at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
• Works by the artist are at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich.

PROVENANCE: Hans Braun Collection, Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: Max Ackermann. Retrospektive, Die Galerie, Frankfurt a. Main, November 10, 2021 - January 12, 2022, illu. in color on p. 87.

In good condition. Isolated tiny superficial paint losses. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.