Sale: 519 / Post War / Cont. Art II, June 19. 2021 in Munich Lot 513


513
Walter Dahn
Russischer Frühling I-IV, 1980.
Acrylic on canvas, 4 parts
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,062

(incl. surcharge)
Russischer Frühling I-IV. 1980.
Acrylic on canvas, 4 parts.
Each signed and dated on the folded canvas. Each 100 x 100 cm (39.3 x 39.3 in).
All 4 with figurative studies in acrylic and chalks on the reverse. [EH].
• From the era of the 'Mühlheimer Freiheit'.
• Walter Dahn's works emanate a strong sense of poetry.
• Walter Dahn was Joseph Beuys’ youngest student
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EXHIBITION: Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne.

"Beuys coined my life like no one else did."
Walter Dahn, quote from: kunstforum.de/artikel/walter-dahn-4/ (on April 22, 2021).

Our monumental work, made in the days of the "Mülheimer Freiheit", consists of four individual canvases. Each forms a self-contained composition animated by pictogram-like figures. Motifs and working methods seem random and atavistic, which makes them difficult to understand. The intensive creative process with countless preliminary drawings that precedes the painting becomes comprehen sible through the figurative studies on the back of the canvases.



513
Walter Dahn
Russischer Frühling I-IV, 1980.
Acrylic on canvas, 4 parts
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,062

(incl. surcharge)