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Georg Karl Pfahler “untitled” Color silkscreen on wove paper 1989

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Georg Karl Pfahler (1926 - 2002) “untitled” Color silkscreen on wove paper, versa signed, numbered and dated by hand Creation 1989 EX. 23/50 framed behind glass Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm Georg Karl Pfahler is considered the only important representative of the Hard Edge in Germany; he was a guest at the Biennales in Venice and São Paolo, taught in Nuremberg and Salzburg and was awarded numerous prizes. Georg Karl Pfahler was born on October 8, 1926 in Emetzheim, Bavaria. He spent his childhood and youth on his parents' farm, far away from any art. Nevertheless, he loved painting and drawing from an early age and cultivated it intensively as a childhood pastime. However, Georg Karl Pfahler only received the impetus to study art in 1948 when he met students from the Nuremberg Art Academy and accepted their invitation. His parents, good but simple country folk, had no interest in their son's newly awakened passion, and the young man was also met with incomprehension in his home village. However, Georg Karl Pfahler did not let this put him off, but attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg for two years, where he came into contact with original art for the first time and became acquainted with the works of Marc Chagall and Paul Klee. After two semesters, he moved to Stuttgart to study under Willi Baumeister, Gerhard Gollwitzer, Manfred Henninger and Karl Hils. Baumeister in particular had a great influence on Pfahler and was revered by him as a teacher and role model. Georg Karl Pfahler first worked with colorful ceramics during his studies in Stuttgart, an experience that helped him to develop his special sense for simple forms and the “unity of color and space”. The artist's early paintings, created in 1955, still bear a strong resemblance to the first works of his teacher Baumeister. Soon afterwards, Pfahler became interested in the color field painting of the American Barnett Newman, and also got to know him personally, but distanced himself from his metaphysical spaces. Instead, he showed an interest in the representational presence of color and surface. Georg Karl Pfahler clarified his understanding of color as a material object in its own right through an intentional occasional shimmering through of the white background - a boundary thus becomes visible between the color as the depicted and the canvas as the foundation; color form and image carrier should not be blurred into a whole. Georg Karl Pfahler's preoccupation with Informel reached a climax when he founded Group 11 together with Attila Biró, Friedrich Sieber and Günther C. Kirchberger, an artists' association dedicated to Action Painting and Informel. After an extensive study trip through Europe had introduced him to famous artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Karl Otto Götz, Marino Marini, Cy Twombly, Emil Schumacher and Gerhard Hoehme, Pfahler met Lawrence Allowey in London, who opened the door to a new understanding of art for him. His contact with the works of Jewish artists who had not wanted to exhibit in Germany for political reasons ultimately led him away from Art Informel and towards his “Formativ” series, which was characterized by an ever greater reduction to color and its references. By the early 1960s, Georg Karl Pfahler had finally arrived at the so-called Hard Edge and was the only German representative of this original American style to achieve international fame. For the Council of Elders of the German Bundestag, he designed the interior of the chamber in the style of his famous “Espan” paintings. Georg Karl Pfahler died on January 6, 2002 in Weißenburg-Emetzheim.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 27.56 in (70 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
  • Style:
    Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
    1980-1989
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1989
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Münster, DE
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU9172244229972

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