Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin
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Modern and Contemporary Art Austrian Modernism
Kremsmayer, H…
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1102
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Modern and Contemporary Art Austrian Modernism
Kremsmayer, H…
See original version (German)
Estimate €240 - €360
Voluntary lot
Description
Modern and Contemporary Art
Austrian Modernism
Kremsmayer, Hermann
Untitled (abstract composition). Watercolour and gouache on vellum. 56 x 76 cm. Signed.
Kremsmayer prefers to work on paper using gouache and pastel, whereby the paper itself becomes an active medium – not as a neutral surface, but as an absorbent, breathable substrate that helps to shape the colour gradients. The wet-on-wet painting technique produces those interflowing colour spaces characteristic of his work, in which contours dissolve and light is, as it were, inscribed into the material. During his study visits to Barcelona, which lasted several years, Kremsmayer became personally acquainted with Antoni Tàpies and Joan Hernández Pijuan – two central figures of the post-war Iberian avant-garde. This encounter was formative: Tàpies’ Informel and material aesthetics – the elevation of surface, trace and matter to the very essence of the pictorial statement – are reflected in Kremsmayer’s treatment of texture and the painting surface. Pijuan’s meditative reduction and linearity, his work with emptiness and delicate application of colour on paper, resonates in Kremsmayer’s more sensitive, glazed style.
(Abstract composition). Watercolour and gouache on vellum. 56 x 76 cm. Signed. Kremsmayer prefers to work on paper using gouache and pastel, whereby the paper itself becomes an active medium—not as a neutral surface, but as an absorbent, breathing substrate that helps shape the colour gradients. The wet-on-wet painting technique produces those interflowing colour spaces typical of his work, in which contours dissolve and light is, as it were, inscribed into the material. During his study visits to Barcelona, which lasted several years, Kremsmayer became personally acquainted with Antoni Tàpies and Joan Hernández Pijuan—two central figures of the post-war Iberian avant-garde. This encounter was formative: Tàpies’ Informel and material aesthetics—the elevation of surface, trace and matter to the very essence of the pictorial statement—are reflected in Kremsmayer’s treatment of texture and the painting surface. Pijuan’s meditative reduction and linearity, his work with emptiness and delicate application of paint on paper, resonate in Kremsmayer’s more sensitive, glazed side.
*This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard margin scheme. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is charged on the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) is charged on the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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