Lithograph in colors on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark)
Germany, 1980
Ulrich Erben (b. 1980) – German artist of concrete art
Signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘Erben 1980’
Inscribed lower left in pencil ‘p.a.’
With the blindstamp of Erker-Presse St. Gallen
Image dimensions: 65.5 x 55 cm
Good condition
Ulrich Erben is one of the outstanding representatives of the concrete painting in Germany; large-scale paintings by the artist fetch up to €12.000 at international auctions.
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Three geometric shapes in painterly applied, pure blue and three geometric shapes in shades of off-white are alternately arranged on the vertical-format image area. Contours and shapes are slightly deformed and irregular, so that instead of rigid austerity, a composition of loose, floating lightness is created.

The lithograph in colors is signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘Erben 1980’ and inscribed lower left in pencil ‘p.a.’. The sheet is somewhat creased in the upper left corner. The condition overall is good. The image measures 65.5 x 55 cm, the sheet 80.6 x 61 cm.



Ulrich Erben (b. 1940)

The artist born in Düsseldorf studied from 1958 to 1965 in Hamburg and Urbino primarily graphical techniques and took some additional semester in painting at the art academies in Venice and Berlin. His early work was affected by objectivity, but towards the end of the 1960s Erben finds his way to concrete painting with monochrome white pictures. He became well-known through the exhibition "Geplante Malerei" (planned painting), which took place in 1974 in the Westfälischer Kunstverein, and by Erben’s participation in documenta 6 in 1977. After the first white paintings the artist turns again to chromatic colors, which he used pure and unbroken in order to address their character. In 1980 Erben receives a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster, which he held until 2005. The artist lives and works in Bagnoregio, near Rome and Düsseldorf. (fea)

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