Sale: 467 / Post War II, June 08. 2018 in Munich Lot 543

 

543
Volker Stelzmann
Berührung, 1979.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 14,850

(incl. surcharge)
Berührung. 1979.
Mixed media on fiberboard.
Behrends 183. Monogrammed and dated in upper right. Verso of stretcher with inscription and twice titled. 125.5 x 49 cm (49.4 x 19.2 in).
[FS].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Hesse.

EXHIBITION: Venice Biennial, 1982 (verso with exhibition label).
Volker Stelzmann. Erste Ausstellung im "Westen“, Galerie Timm Gierig, Frankfurt am Main August 16 - September 25, 1985 (cat. no. 19, verso with the gallery stamp, with gallery label on the stretcher).

"Encounters, experience, disappointments, encouragements, anchor points and hopes, that is what Volker Stelzmann's art in painting and etching is all about. His pictures are. on the one hand, concrete, for instance his portraits, but at the same time wrapped in allegories, metaphors and myths [..]. Nothing is really obvious and a lot remains unanswered. Late pictures by Stelzmann always offer more than one answer and leave the observer in the dark: In the end, the observer has to come up with an answer."
Quote after: Behrends, p. 11.




543
Volker Stelzmann
Berührung, 1979.
Mixed media
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 14,850

(incl. surcharge)