Christel Dillbohner (German, born 1956), Five Works, a group of mixed media assemblages, each signed and dated. Includes a portfolio with seven works, edition 11/89, plus an electrical box element. This is a visually compelling, materially-driven assemblage grouping, ideal for collectors of late-20th-century mixed media, conceptual object works, and portfolio-based editions.

Highlights

Artist: Christel Dillbohner (German, b. 1956-)
Five works: mixed media assemblage
Each signed and dated
Includes portfolio w/ seven works, ed. 11/89
Includes an electrical box component
Overall assembled presentation includes the boxes/components shown (see photos)
Condition: Very good condition with age-related wear. Typical handling/storage wear visible on components/boxes consistent with age.

About the Artist

Christel Dillbohner was born in Cologne, Germany, where she studied art at the Cologne Art School (Kölner Werkschulen), receiving her degree in 1984. Dillbohner's principal media are painting, installation, and assemblage. Field research is a central part of her artistic process and has taken her around the world. Her emphasis on art as a transformational undertaking, as well as her use of highly tactile materials such as wax, tar, silk cocoons, and old wood, show the influence on her work of Joseph Beuys. Other influences include the German artists Gerhard Richter, Rebecca Horn and Wolfgang Laib. In her assemblages, Dillbohner subjects discarded objects and natural material like seeds and bones to transformations that highlight their function as carriers of memory and sources of renewal. In her 2007 assemblage Timekeeper, for example, she offers a composition of used teabags and silkworm cocoons as a meditation on the passage of time. Dillbohner's paintings adhere loosely to the genre of landscape but "oscillate between abstraction and representation." Her work is featured in several books on encaustic painting.

Source: Artist biography and career summary from Wikipedia (Dillbohner entry).

Very good condition with age-related wear. Typical handling/storage wear visible on components/boxes consistent with age.

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