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Karl MordsteinField - Field research -1983
1983
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Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen - 2006 Wilszhofen), Field 1983. Color etching, copy 13/65, 22.5 x 28 cm (image), 40 x 45 cm (sheet), 43 x 48 cm (frame), titled, numbered, monogrammed and dated with pencil. Framed behind glass.
- In very good condition.
- Field research -
About the artwork
In accordance with the title, we see a transverse rectangular field that is kept in a brownish tone. However, the field is not an opaque surface, but an inhomogeneous zone of different color intensities with a multitude of individual fluctuating formations. The field is thus not a color surface, but an event space within which something takes place that has been captured here in the stage before our eyes. And the surrounding space of the field is the periphery of the event space, whereby with the hatched zone directly under the field and the gray and brown linear surfaces at the lower edge the ingredients of the field are indicated legend-like.
About the artist
After graduating from the Werkkunstschule in Augsburg, Karl Mordstein worked as a commercial artist in Munich before becoming a freelance artist and concentrating entirely on his own creations. In 1970 Mordstein married the sculptor Sinen Thalheimer and the artist couple moved to Starnberg. In 1972, Mordstein had his first solo exhibition in Munich, which marked the beginning of an active international exhibition career that lasted for decades. From 1987 the couple lived on the Hollerberg in Wilzhofen.
“It is certainly not wrong to recognize in the impression of his calmly floating color drawings the expression of a state of mind that owes itself precisely to this conscious turning away from the hectic art market: concentrated serenity. It is not a changing state of mind, but an empathy with the supra-individual rhythms of creation, the perpetual genesis in the natural cycle of becoming and passing, which is expressed in them.”
- Stefan Tolksdorf
Selected Bibliography
Karl Mordstein. Aquarelle, Gouachen 1972 – 1975, Galerie Angst und Orny, München 1975.
Juliane Roh: Karl Mordstein. Bilder, Paintings 1976 – 79, Frankfurt a. M. 1979.
Siegfried Salzmann (Text): Karl Mordstein. Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz 1982.
Galerie Heimeshoff (Hrsg.): Karl Mordstein. "Seelen-Notate"; Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Bildkästen; 1985 – 1988, Essen 1988.
Stefan Tolksdorf (Text): Lebenszeichen. Mordstein, Karl und Sinen Thalheimer, Essen 2009.
GERMAN VERSION
Karl Ludwig Mordstein (1937 Füssen – 2006 Wilszhofen), Feld 1983. Farbradierung, Exemplar 13/65, 22,5 x 28 cm (Darstellung), 40 x 45 cm (Blattgröße), 43 x 48 cm (Rahmen), in Blei betitelt, nummeriert, monogrammiert und datiert. Hinter Glas gerahmt.
- in sehr gutem Erhaltungszustand
- Feldforschung -
zum Kunstwerk
Dem Titel entsprechend sehen wir ein querrechteckiges Feld, das in einem bräunlichen Ton gehalten ist. Das Feld ist jedoch keine opake Fläche, sondern eine inhomogene Zone verschiedener Farbintensitäten mit einer Vielzahl einzelner fluktuierend wirkender Formgebilde. Das Feld ist also keine Farbfläche, sondern ein Ereignisraum, innerhalb dessen sich etwas vollzieht, das hier in dem vor Augen stehenden Stadium festgehalten worden ist. Und der Umraum des Feldes ist die Peripherie des Ereignisraums, wobei mit der schraffierten Zone direkt unter dem Feld und den grauen und brauen linearen Flächen am unteren Rand legendenartig die Ingredienzien des Feldes angezeigt werden.
zum Künstler
Karl Mordstein absolvierte die Werkkunstschule Augsburg und war zunächst in München als Gebrauchsgraphiker tätig, bevor er sich als freier Künstler ganz auf seine eigenen Schöpfungen konzentrierte. 1970 ehelichte Mordstein die Bildhauerin Sinen Thalheimer und das Künstlerpaar zog nach Starnberg. 1972 fand in München eine erste Einzelausstellung seiner Werke statt, die den Auftakt einer über Jahrzehnte währenden regen internationalen Ausstellungstätigkeit markierte. Ab 1987 lebte das Paar auf dem Hollerberg in Wilzhofen.
"Es ist gewiss nicht falsch, in der Anmutung seiner ruhig schwebenden Farbzeichnungen den Ausdruck einer Geisteshaltung zu erkennen, die sich gerade dieser bewussten Abkehr vom hektischen Kunstmarktgeschehen verdankt: konzentrierte Gelassenheit. Nicht wechselnde Befindlichkeit, sondern die Einfühlung in überindividuelle Schöpfungsrhythmen, die immerwährende Genesis im natürlichen Kreislauf von Werden und Vergehen drückt sich darin aus."
- Stefan Tolksdorf
Auswahlbibliographie
Karl Mordstein. Aquarelle, Gouachen 1972 – 1975, Galerie Angst und Orny, München 1975.
Juliane Roh: Karl Mordstein. Bilder, Paintings 1976 – 79, Frankfurt a. M. 1979.
Siegfried Salzmann (Text): Karl Mordstein. Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz 1982.
Galerie Heimeshoff (Hrsg.): Karl Mordstein. "Seelen-Notate"; Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Bildkästen; 1985 – 1988, Essen 1988.
Stefan Tolksdorf (Text): Lebenszeichen. Mordstein, Karl und Sinen Thalheimer, Essen 2009.

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About the artwork
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