20th Century Rolf Hans Hard Edge Abstract Acrylic Painting in Blue and Pink

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Rolf Hans
20th Century Rolf Hans Hard Edge Abstract Acrylic Painting in Blue and Pink
1974

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20th Century Rolf Hans Hard Edge Abstract Acrylic Painting in Blue and Pink Rolf Hans Frankfurt a. Main 1938 – 1996 Basel Four parts: Babyface No 2, 1974 Acrylic on canvas 132 x 202 cm Verso signed, dated and inscribed:" R. Hans 74, Vier Teile: Babyface No 2, 1974" Provenance: Estate of the artist About the workgroup of Flächenbilder / Surface Images 1971 - 1976 Whereas Rolf Hans has so far focused on pure, unmixed colors whose intensity, through their expressive effect, usually allows a clear definition, he now turns to the quieter intermediate tones of the palette: the broken colors. One reason for this new starting point are the late paintings by Mark Rothko, which impressed him in 1971 at the Kunsthaus Zürich: "The pictures look like altars, hanging on the wall like a memorial, defiant and powerful. Color emanates from them [...] The originals [seem] calming. Almost all shades are broken, even the most saturated yellow. You need distance, you need space for viewing the pictures. One of these pictures on one wall, without disturbing others, looks like a cathedrals window from Chartres. The pictures with broken colors are stronger than the loud ones, not only stronger also deeper. I read in the catalog: I think of my pictures as dramas. It speaks a blatant cheerfulness from all images, sometimes a little more articulated, sometimes quieter. But all this sophistication is expressed in color. "15 The color world experienced here takes Hans so much that he needs to check his chosen direction of the past four years:" The pictures with corners - with so many memories of J. Albers pushing me from [the] Path started in 1967. The Rothko exhibition forces me back. Yellow, red, green, blue as pure pigments have dominated my thinking too long, the broken ones are to be explored." In addition to Rothko's late works, the "Black Paintings" by Ad Reinhardt exert influence on his subsequent work. By reducing and sublimating, by obliterating the image event and by using a dark palette of colors and restricting the form to symmetrical orders that offer no distractions, the American artist has pushed painting to the utmost limits of visibility in those works. Thus deprived of time and space, Reinhardt's paintings are voices of silence. A sound of silence is also marked by the dark and light compositions that Hans produced from 1971 to 1978. In long work processes, he embraces the broken tone levels and mixed complementary colors. In addition to black and white, his color scale consists of mixtures of pure colors from yellow to blue; he uses earth tones like caput mortuum and ocher. With them, he formulates color contexts that express his pictorial thoughts in a more subtle way than the pure colors. Now the form plays a subordinate role, because not the form "should carry the picture, but the color. Form is dead, only the color awakens the form. Color has a design character, form gives space for such designs. "In order to bring the mixed tones to their purest charisma and to bring the surfaces to life, Hans applies up to eight thin layers of paint, whereby the first ones alone serve to" seal "the painting ground. Decisive for the mysterious color effect, however, are the last two layers. Rolf Hans retains this painting technique not only for his paintings, but also for his works on paper. In the formal design, Hans takes up the "Streifenbilder" from 1967, but now uses geometrically exact rectangles as bearers of the color statement. For example, in the watercolors "Büren an der Aare", we find precisely defined areas of color separated by a narrow white line in pencil and ruler. In these works, which were created in the summer of 1973, the series of colors are attuned to a sequence of tones which are emerged from the various nuances of black and gray, while the varying width of the fields set the pulsating rhythm. Therefore, we experience a completely different melody in each picture despite the same basic notes. The paintings follow the same design principle. However, as with "Drei Teile Rot" from 1972, not a single painting field is subdivided. Rather, it is usually two or three separate screens that are held together by a frame; in other pictures, the individual color carriers are connected by a wooden bar mounted on the back. While in this subtly arranged composition the two fine nuances of the Rottons result in a harmonious dialogue, in "Caput mortuum mit Hellem", 1974, a dialogue between two contrasting colors emerges. The contrast of cracked white and brown-red iron oxide gives an idiosyncratic effect. In view of the title, associations with death can be awakened in us: here "Caput mortuum" denotes the color of the iron oxide, but literally translated from Latin means 'dead head, skull'. But neither the choice of color nor the generally prevalent dark tones of this creative phase have anything to do with Hans's thoughts. Rolf Hans succeeds in bringing us closer to the "language of colors" with the style of presentation found in the "Farbflächenbildern" and the minimalist color canon. Without any placard, the colors quietly emerge from inside to outside, sharing and opening up a conversation with us: they do reach our soul from the surface, but over the eye. Exhibitions (selection) 2021 Galerie Michael Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg „Sprache der Farben-Das Baseler Kabinett“ 2020 Malte Ueckermann Kunsthandel, Berlin, Kanalidarte, Brescia „Che cosa avrebbe detto Hegel_ROLF HANS… e la Poesia della cose“, Italy, Kunsthandel Draheim „art Karlsruhe“, „Poesie der Dinge“ 2019 Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Blaszczyk, Bad Homberg 2018 Art Karlsruhe, Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden, Farbfelder Galerie Dekker, Baden-Baden, Retrospektive Galerie Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg 2017 Gallery Eklektik, Monte Carlo, Monaco Galerie Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main 2016 Galerie Cerny & Partner, Wiesbaden (Sprache der Farben) Art Karlsruhe, Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden (Tachistische Malerei + Eisenskulpturen) Galerie Rainer Klimczak, Viersen Galerie Schuhmacher, Frankfurt a.M. (Schwarz auf Weiß) 2015 Galerie Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg art Karlsruhe, one Artist show (Galerie Cerny und Partner) Gallery Eklektik, Monte Carlo, Monaco 2014 Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt am Main (Eine Retrospektive-1) Galerie Tristan Lorenz., Frankfurt am Main (Eine Retrospektive-2) Hellhof Galerie, Kronberg im Taunus (Werke von 1960 – 1980) Art Fair, Köln, Monochrome Malerei (Galerie & Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden) 2013 Kunsthandel Thole Rotermund, Hamburg (Im Kraftfeld der Farbe) + Katalog Galerie & Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden (Malerei & Skulptur 1970 – 1990) 2012 art KARLSRUHE, one Artist show (Galerie & Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden ) 2011 Galerie & Kunsthandel Draheim, Wiesbaden (Im Rausch der Farben – Arbeiten der 60iger Jahre) 2009 Ketterer Kunst, Berlin (Rolf Hans - Malerei und Skulptur) Kunsthandel Michael Draheim, Wiesbaden (Rolf Hans - Poesie der Dinge) 2008 Galerie Art Mayence, Mainz (Rolf Hans - Farbensprache) Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt a. M. (Rolf Hans) Galerie Winterberg, München (Rolf Hans - Die Sprache der Farben) Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt a.M., Art Karlsruhe (Rolf Hans - one artist show) 2007 Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher, Frankfurt a. M. („Rolf Hans im Spannungsfeld der ‚Quadriga‘“) 2001 Kunstraum Aare, Olten („Rolf Hans – Bilder, Skulpturen, Fotografien“) 1999 ‚Kunst im Liebrüti‘, Kaiseraugst („Martin Frigg und Rolf Hans“) 1992 Kommunale Galerie, Schlangenbad („Gabriele Schmolk-Hieber, Bilder – Rolf Hans, Objekte“) 1991 Museum Schloß Salder, Salzgitter („Poesie der Dinge“) 1990 Galerie Brechbühl, Grenchen („Poesie der Dinge“) 1985 1985 Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen („Zwei Freunde, Ho-Kan, Mailand – Rolf Hans, Basel“) Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen („Rolf Hans – Ölbilder 1983-1985“) 1981 1981 Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen („Rolf Hans – Rolf Brunner – Michelle Hänggi“) SWB Forum, Bern („Frans Webering, Plexiglasobjekte – Rolf Hans, Aquarelle“) 1978 1978 Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen („30 Jahre Galerie Toni Brechbühl“) 1977 Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen „Art“ 8/77, Basel (Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen) 1975 „Art Basel“ 6/75, Basel (Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen) Galerie Chutz in Solthurn (Ölbilder, Gouachen) 1966 Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen (Aquarelle) 1964 Galerie Toni Brechbühl, Grenchen (Zeichnungen, Gouachen, Ölbilder)

Creator:
Rolf Hans (born after 1938-died after 1996, German)
Creation Year:
1974
Dimensions:
Height: 51.97 in (132 cm)Width: 79.53 in (202 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic
Movement & Style:
Hard-Edge
Period:
1970-1979
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Eltville, DE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU148927658772