Modulation, 1972

ArtistGünter Fruhtrunk, München 1923–1982 München

Screen print on cardstock paper

Sheet dimensions25,2 × 96 cm

Dimensions with frame39,3 × 109,3 × 3,2 cm

Status

on display, room 032.2

About the workGünter Fruhtrunk, who taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1967 until his death, translated important visual concepts from painting to screen printing and thereby made them accessible to a wider audience. As a technique that suppresses traces of the artist’s hand, screen printing suited Fruhtrunk, who strove for “neutral” beauty. The theme of these compositions is sight. Rhythmically arranged stripes join together to form abstract chords of colour. They confuse the viewer’s eye as it tries in vain to decipher the interaction between the planes of depth and the background.

Accession Kemp Collection Foundation 2016

ProvenanceMai 1972 Willi Kemp (Köln 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) erworben von der Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg; 2016 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung Willi Kemp

Inventory numberKemp 952

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

Permalink

https://sammlung.kunstpalast.de/en/objects/540978/modulation

Expand