Artist: Hahn, Bernd
Title: Composition
Technique: Lithograph on Hahnemühle Velvet
size: 60 x 80 cm. (23,6 x 31,5 inch)


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Hand-Signed and numbered with pencil by the artist.

Bernd Hahn ranks among the most important artists in Dresden’s contemporary art scene. Clear lines, intensive colour fields and energetic brushwork are among the defining characteristics of his work. Measured intervals, rhythms, ratios and proportions give rise to powerful, monumental canvases, but also to small, sparing drawings of the utmost intensity.
Switching back and forth between free movement on the one hand and an often rigorous, underlying compositional order on the other, Hahn has created an idiom that is unmistakably his own.

About the artist

Bernd Hahn (1954–2011), born in Neustadt/Sachsen, Germany, was a German artist best known for his work in lyrical abstraction and concrete art. He studied from 1974 to 1979 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden under Professor Gerhard Kettner and became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. In 1979, he co-founded the artist group B 53, also known as Grafikwerkstatt Bärenstein 53, together with Anton P. Kammerer and Andreas Küchler, seeking alternatives to the officially prescribed Socialist Realism in the GDR.

Hahn's artistic practice was characterized by a focus on color, geometric structures, and rhythm. His work moved away from the figurative tradition of the Dresden school toward lyrical abstraction and concrete art. He developed a visual language rooted in abstract-constructivist principles, distinguishing himself within the non-conformist art scene of the GDR through his exploration of form and chromatic relationships.

Hahn's work is held in several public collections, including the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, and the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg. From 1993, he taught at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, influencing a subsequent generation of artists. His estate is managed by Galerie Sybille Nütt.

sku: BB423

Excellent condition.