By Thilo Maatsch
Located in Kansas City, MO
Thilo Maatsch (* 1900 † 1983)
Title: Abstract Geometric Composition
Woodcut on Vellum
Year: Unknown (pres. mid to late 1920s)
Signed by hand
Edition: unknown
9.2 × 6.6 inches
Thilo Friedrich Maatsch (born August 13, 1900 in Braunschweig, died March 20, 1983 in Königslutter) was a German artist and an exponent of abstract art, constructivism and concrete art.
Whilst visiting exhibitions in his youth he came in touch with art. Especially the upcoming modernism affected him and his work of art a lot. 18 years after his birth he founded with Johannes Molzahn and Rudolf Jahns the "Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst" (Society of the adorer of young art) which were joined by several distinguished artist as e.g. Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee. The collector Otto Ralfs supported this organisation and Kandinsky designed the signet. Maatsch's circle of friends and acquaintances ranked among the aforementioned artists, László Moholy-Nagy, William Wauer and Lothar Schreyer...
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1920s Abstract Expressionist Thilo Maatsch Art