Vente: 343 / Post War / Contemporary Art 04 décembre 2008 à Munich Lot 506

 



506
Heinz Kreutz
Sol, 1957.
Oil on canvas
Estimation:
€ 3,000 / $ 3,240
Résultat:
€ 7,686 / $ 8,300

( frais d'adjudication compris)

Sol. 1957.
Oil on canvas.
Kretschmann-Muche G 305. Signed and dated on the left in the image. Once more signed and dated, titled as well as with an indication of direction on the reverse. With an inscription of direction on the stretcher. 50,5 : 60,5 cm (19,8 : 23,8 in). [NB] “In any case, this is an exhibition not to be missed,” announced the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 17 December 1952. What was being referred to was a small show at the Zimmergalerie run by Klaus Franck, an insurance man, in the Frankfurt Westend. The exhibition comprised thirteen abstract paintings by four artists. The evening the show opened, the writer René Hinds penned a poem in which he called the four exhibiting artists a “quadriga”. From such modest beginnings grew the agenda-setting Quadriga exhibition, the first public appearance of Informel in Germany.
The four Quadriga painters are Karl Otto Götz, Otto Greis, Bernard Schultze and Heinz Kreutz, who was the youngest of the four. From 1938 until 1940 Heinz Kreutz trained as a photographer but was conscripted into the military and served from 1940 until 1944. A self-taught artist who started painting in 1944, Heinz Kreutz met Bernard Schultze in 1948 and became friends with him. In 1951 Kreutz spent six months in Paris, where he had his first solo show, which would be followed in 1952 by the Quadriga exhibition. In 1954 Kreutz began working out a colour theory of his own, which he had completed by 1965 although it was not published until 1973. In 1955 Heinz Kreutz showed work at “Peintures et sculptures non-figuratives en Allemagne d’aujourd’hui”, an exhibition at the Cercle Volnay in Paris. In 1957 he exhibited at “Lebendige Farbe - Couleur vivante”, mounted by the Städtisches Museum in Wiesbaden. Kreutz was also represented in 1957-58 at “Eine neue Richtung der Malerei”, a groundbreaking exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. In 1960 Kreutz established himsel fin a Paris studio and in 1967 he was awarded a grant by the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
In 1998 Heinz Kreutz said of his art: “I suspected then that my artistic work would be represented as the movement and meeting of colour between light and dark.” The way light makes colour appear is the main theme of his art. In the 1960s Kreutz abandoned oil painting and Informel for a while but in a late phase he once again linked up with the vibrant bursts of colour featured in his early work, painting both in pastel and oil. In 1971-73 Heinz Kreutz was a guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. Since 1976 he has been living and working in Antdorf, Upper Bavaria.

Good overall impression. With minor craquelé.




506
Heinz Kreutz
Sol, 1957.
Oil on canvas
Estimation:
€ 3,000 / $ 3,240
Résultat:
€ 7,686 / $ 8,300

( frais d'adjudication compris)