DAHN, WALTER
1954 Krefeld
Title: Alternativvorschlag (Häuser auf Bomben).
Date: 1983.
Technique: Mixed media on canvas.
Measurement: 200 x 150cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar.
Provenance:
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (previous permanent loan)
- Private collection Germany
Exhibitions:
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 1983 (label)
- Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, 1985/86
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Walther Dahn, Rene Daniels, Isa Genzken, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Henk Visch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 1983, ill.
- Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Hessischen Landesmuseums in Darmstadt (ed.): Tiefe Blicke. Kunst der achtziger Jahre aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der DDR, Österreich und der Schweiz, Cologne 1985, cat. no. 71, ill.
The work was part of path-breaking exhibition and collection presentation "Tiefe Blicke" at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt in the mid-1980s. Additionally, since then it was domiciled there as a permanent loan and will be auctioned for the first time.
- Large-scale work in the artist's distinct style
- Expressive image world between humour and social criticism
- The work was part of the path-breaking exhibition "Tiefe Blicke".
