Red Flower (Donor's Image), 1958

ArtistHAP Grieshaber, Rot an der Rot 1909–1981 Reutlingen

Colour woodcut from 6 plates and 7 colours (vermilion, light blue, cadmium yellow, light Naples yellow, olive green, Russian green, black)

Image dimensions43 × 30,5 cm

Sheet dimensions57,5 × 43 cm

Status

on display, room 032.2

About the workHAP Grieshaber created this work on paper for the patrons of the first volume of his catalogue raisonné of woodcuts. The addition of “Stifterbild” (donor picture) to the title alludes to this. Printed in seven different colours, the image is a tribute to the sixteenth-century German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer. Grieshaber transported Dürer’s copperplate engraving “Melencolia I” from 1514 to the 1950s: a figure sits with her head resting in her hand, making her inner despair visible to the outside world. The sun and flowers are shown in ovals behind her as symbols of hope.

AccessionKemp Collection Foundation 2016

Provenance[...]; 2016 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung Willi Kemp (Köln 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf)

Inventory numberKemp 1298

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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