Conrad Westpfahl, Abstrakte Komposition - photo 1
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Conrad Westpfahl, Abstrakte Komposition - photo 1

Conrad Westpfahl, Abstrakte Komposition

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€ 400
Auction dateClassic
24.02.2018 11:00UTC +02:00
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Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH
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Germany, Plauen
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Lot 4821 | Conrad Westpfahl, Abstrakte Komposition
an Felswände im gleißenden Sonnenlicht erinnernde Strukturen, Stifte, Farben und Kreiden auf Papier, rechts unten signiert und datiert „Westpfahl 62/66“, unter Passepartout und hinter Glas gerahmt, Passepartoutausschnitt ca. 24,5 x 33 cm. Künstlerinfo: auch Konrad Westphal, dt. Maler, Graphiker und Kunstschriftsteller (1891 Berlin bis 1976 Wetzhausen), bedeutender Vertreter der deutschen Informellen Kunst, 1907–12 Studium bei Emil Orlik an der Lehranstalt am Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, anschließend Studium an der Akademie in München bei Hugo von Habermann, 1914 Studienaufenthalt bei Félix Vallotton an der privaten Académie Ranson in Paris, als Flieger Teilnahme am 1. Weltkrieg, 1918–26 in Berlin als Maler, Graphiker und Privatdozent in Kunstgeschichte tätig, beschickte 1925/26 Gruppenausstellungen der Berliner Secession und der Berliner Akademie der Künste, 1926–33 in Paris und der Provence, hier Bekanntschaft mit Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque und Fernand Léger und Hinwendung zur Abstraktion, 1933 Rückkehr nach Berlin, zunehmende Verfemung und ab 1936 Arbeitsverbot, 1935–39 in Athen, 1939 zwangsweise Rückkehr nach Deutschland und in Pöcking bei München ansässig, ab 1954 Gastdozent an der Landeskunstschule Hamburg, 1960 Umzug ins Schloss Birnfeld bei Stadtlauringen in Unterfranken, 1961 Ehrengast in der Deutschen Akademie Villa Massimo in Rom und 1962 Aufenthalt in der Villa Romana in Florenz, Mitglied der „Neuen Gruppe“ München und 1955–57 Gast der Gruppe ”Zen 49”, beschickte Ausstellungen in Witten, der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, der Biennale in Sao Paulo, der Städtischen Galerie in Würzburg und des Lenbachhauses in München, tätig in Pöcking, München und Wetzhausen, Quelle: Vollmer, Dressler, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie und Internet.
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