Andreas BRANDT Signed silkscreen, 1988 / Original print by Brandt
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Andreas BRANDT Signed silkscreen, 1988 / Original print by Brandt. Original silkscreen in color. He moved to West Berlin in 1955, where he studied under Ernst Schumacher at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Berlin until 1961. He then began his career as a painter and later taught at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg as Professor for Textile Design from 1982 to 2001. Andreas BRANDT - "Schwarz und Weiß mit Gelb, von links", 1988 Original silkscreen in color Signerad Total dimensions: 71 x 53 cm. Good condition. A scratch on the sheet. Please look at the pictures carefully. Ship worldwide with tracking and insured shipping. ** Andreas Brandt (born 1935 in Halle (Saale), Germany, died 2016 in Niebüll, Germany) was one of the most ascetic representatives of German Concrete Art thanks to his consistent use of straight lines and stripes of equal width on a monochrome background. Inspired by American modernist painters, especially Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt, early in his career he developed a unique non-representational pictorial language that focused on the most essential elements for organizing the picture surface. He explored the systematic distribution of intensely colored or black and gray lines on a white ground, sometimes using a landscape, sometimes a portrait format. He moved to West Berlin in 1955, where he studied under Ernst Schumacher at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Berlin until 1961. He then began his career as a painter and later taught at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg as Professor for Textile Design from 1982 to 2001. In the early 1970s, he began to reduce his repertoire of forms to rectangles, which he often painted as thin stripes of color. His compositions occasionally also feature diagonal elements that make these more dynamic. In the late 1980s, he developed a harmonic and balanced pictorial language.He used pictorial means to combine rational methods of composition with rhythm and sound, sometimes creating the impression of listening to an etude by Bach. His main objective was to create “the picture as the picture with the means of the picture,” as he explained in 1970 in a publication of the Galerie Diogenes in Berlin, adding: “material is the surface, the colors. the goal is to set the surface – with its limitations and expansions – in motion through color. creating space, autonomous pictorial space. finding order […]. regarding the surface as an artistic medium. to understand color, independent of its physical quality […] as a fundamental pictorial value.”
