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Karl Fred Dahmen
Ohne Titel, 1959
Mixed media
Current bid:
€ 4,500 Estimate:
€ 5,000End: 07-15-25 15:26:00 Berlin
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Lot description
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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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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53
Karl Fred Dahmen
Ohne Titel, 1959
Mixed media
Starting bid:
€ 4,500 Estimate
€ 5,000End: 07-15-25 15:26:00 Berlin
07-15-25 09:26:00 New York
07-15-25 06:26:00 Los Angeles (26 days, 17h:14m)
07-15-25 09:26:00 New York
07-15-25 06:26:00 Los Angeles (26 days, 17h:14m)
After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.