Ohne Titel. 1989.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and inscribed "Nr 116" on the reverse. 120 x 120 cm (47.2 x 47.2 in).
From the series “Übersicht" (Overview), created between 1986 and 1990. [JS]

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

• Zimmer succeeds in capturing impressions of landscapes in atmospherically dense, almost abstract landscape structures that resemble the work of Per Kirkeby, who was active at the same time.
• In the series “Übersicht” (Overview), sky and earth are the protagonists that fight a fierce battle over the pictorial surface.
• In 2015, Bernd Zimmer was represented as one of the “Junge Wilde” in the major retrospective exhibition “The 80s” at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
• Further works by the artist can be found at, among others, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Busch-Reisinger Museum / Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge (MA).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Fahlbusch, Mannheim.
Hans Braun Collection, Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 1991).

LITERATURE: Anuschka Koos (ed.), Bernd Zimmer. Bilder auf Leinwand – Catalogue raisonné 1976-2011, Munich 2011, cat. no. 786 (illu.).

"The imaginary bird's eye view in the overview pictures offers the artist a completely new, highly abstracted view [..]"
Anuschka Koos, in: Anuschka Koos (ed.), Bernd Zimmer. Bilder auf Leinwand – catalogue raisonné 1976-2011, Munich 2011, p. 11

In very good condition, with fresh colors.
The condition report was compiled in daylight and with the help of a UV light source to the best of our knowledge and belief.