Opus 25 a (Summer Painting), 1925

ArtistCarl Buchheister, Hannover 1890–1964 Hannover

Oil on canvas

(H x W)151,7 × 110 cm

Status

not on display

About the workThe Hanoverian painter Carl Buchheister was one of the pioneers of abstract painting in Germany. With this painting he attempted to grasp the concept of summer in an abstract way. “I thought in summer everything is broad, round, coloured, spherical, compact…”, he wrote in a letter. Consequently, the artist composed his painting with clear forms and bright colours. Buchheister saw in his work a parallel to music and compared this picture to a fugue by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

AccessionKemp Collection Foundation

ProvenanceUntil March 1983 owned by Elisabeth Buchheister (1906 - 1989), wife of the artist; March 1983 Willi Kemp (Cologne 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) acquired from Elisabeth Buchheister; 2011 Kemp Collection Foundation in the Kunstpalast acquired by gift of Willi Kemp

Inventory number0.mkp.2011.Kemp011

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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