Ways of Seeing Abstraction

The auction "Ways of Seeing Abstraction" focuses on painterly works of modern and contemporary art, whose pictorial content breaks away from the object-relatedness of earlier centuries. By removing and renouncing the representational, the artists achieve a detachment from a naturalistic, reality-based representation. Shapes, colors, lines and contrasts alone are declared to be the content of the picture. The goal is an alienation up to the unrecognizability. The absolute painting, as the abstract painting is sometimes called, allows the artist a greater freedom in the expression of his innermost and represents a form of expression far from guidelines and motif specifications. The origins of abstraction lie in the first decade of the 20th century. Even in the recent present, abstraction is an important means of expression for contemporary artists. In the online auction, more than 100 lots will be offered, whose variance imposes, as it were, how diversely the artists of the 20th and 21st centuries treat the path to abstraction.

With artworks by:

Max Ackermann | Josef Albers | Richard Artschwager | Mary Bauermeister | Jean René Bazaine | Lore Bert | Erdmut Bramke | Peter Brüning | Antonio Calderara | Giuseppe Capogrossi | Eduardo Chillida | Alain Clément | Karl Fred Dahmen| Gunter Damisch | Jo Delahaut | Jan Dibbets | Rolf-Gunter Dienst | Piero Dorazio | Paul Uwe Dreyer | Leo Erb | Ulrich Erben | Jean Fautrier | Sam Francis | Lucio Fontana | Winfred Gaul | Rupprecht Geiger | Raimund Girke | Angela Glajcar | Gotthard Graubner | Marcia Hafif | Hans Hartung | Marguerite Hersberger | Anton Heyboer | Jiri Hilmar | Raimer Jochims | Per Kirkeby | Jannis Kounellis | Ewald Kroener | Jan Kubicek | Hermann-Josef Kuhna | Hans Mack | César Manrique | Mario Merz | Richard Allen Morris | Jürgen Möbius | Aurélie Nemours | Georges Noël | Martin Noël | Otto Piene | Hans Peter Reuter | Gerhard Richter | Klaus Rinke | Fritz Ruoff | SEO | Sean Scully | Mario Schifano | Jan Schoonhoven | Bernard Schultze | Theodoros Stamos | Antoni Starczewski | Klaus Staudt | Frank Stella | Walter Stöhrer | Kumi Sugai | Antoni Tàpies | Hann Trier | Günther Uecker | Fritz Winter | Lothar Quinte | Yvaral (Jean-Pierre Vasarely) | Zao Wou-ki

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(can be seen from 2 November 2023)

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