Furchenbild
Karl Fred Dahmen (Stolberg 1917 - Preinersdorf/Chiemsee 1981)
Lot-No. 561
1979. Pastel and mixed media/paper, 51 x 44,5 cm, up. le. sign. Dahmen, up. ri. dat. Preinersdorf 1979, matted and framed under glass. - Along with Emil Schumacher and Gerhard Hoehme, D. is one of the most important representatives of German Informel. He attended the Werkkunstschule Aachen in 1932/33 and then made an apprenticeship as a commercial artist. After the Second World War he studied only briefly at the Düsseldorf Academy. Since a first stay in Paris in 1951, he established lively contacts with the French art scene and became a pioneer of informal painting in Germany. In 1967-81 D. was a professor at the Munich Academy. Mus.: Berlin (Nationalgalerie), New York, Munich, Hannover, Kassel, Basel, Budapest, Oslo u.a. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.
Karl Fred Dahmen: Furchenbild
Karl Fred Dahmen (Stolberg 1917 - Preinersdorf/Chiemsee 1981)
Furchenbild
Lot-No. 561
1979. Pastel and mixed media/paper, 51 x 44,5 cm, up. le. sign. Dahmen, up. ri. dat. Preinersdorf 1979, matted and framed under glass. - Along with Emil Schumacher and Gerhard Hoehme, D. is one of the most important representatives of German Informel. He attended the Werkkunstschule Aachen in 1932/33 and then made an apprenticeship as a commercial artist. After the Second World War he studied only briefly at the Düsseldorf Academy. Since a first stay in Paris in 1951, he established lively contacts with the French art scene and became a pioneer of informal painting in Germany. In 1967-81 D. was a professor at the Munich Academy. Mus.: Berlin (Nationalgalerie), New York, Munich, Hannover, Kassel, Basel, Budapest, Oslo u.a. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.
