Graue Poesie. Poesie auf Asche. 1955.
Oil on burlap.
Hoehme 55-10. Lower left signed and dated. Verso signed, dated, titled "Graue Poesie" and with direction arrow on stretcher as well as signed and dedicated "f. Margaret H.". 100 x 80 cm (39.3 x 31.4 in).

Fine early work by one of the protagonists of German Informel.

PROVENANCE: Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg i. Br.

EXHIBITION: (selection)
K.O. Götz - Gerhard Hoehme - Bernhard Schultze, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Diusburg 1958, cat. no. 45.
Gruppe 53 und junge Sezession, Kulturhaus Ludwigshafen 1959, cat. no. 21.
Arte alemã desde 1945, Museo de arte moderna, Rio de Janeiro 1960, cat. no. 134, black amd white illu. 56.
G. Hoehme 1950-61, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1962, cat. no. 7.
Gerhard Hoehme, Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum; Städtische Kunnsthalle, Mannheim; Kunstverein Freiburg i. Br. 1964, cat. no. 1.
Gerhard Hoehme. Bilder, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Kunstverein Heidelberg 1979, cat. no. 4, black and white illu. on p. 49.
Informel. Götz, Schultze, Hoehme, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 1980, cat. no. 71.

LITERATURE: Gerhard Hoehme, Galerie Hennemann, catalog no. 10, Bonn 1976, black and white illu., no page.
Giulio Carlo Argan and Hand Peter Thurn, Gerhard Hoehme. Werk und Zeit 1948 - 1983, Stuttgart and Zürich 1983, illu. p. 30.
Gerhard Hoehme. Das Offene Bild, Kunstverein Brunswick and Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck 1984, black and white illu. on p. 24.