Lot 3440* - A205 PostWar & Contemporary - jeudi, 22. juin 2023, 14h00
GÜNTHER FÖRG
(Füssen 1952–2013 Freiburg)
Untitled. 1999.
Acrylic and lead on wood.
Signed and dated on the reverse: Förg 99.
80 × 60 cm.
With the confirmation of authentity by the Estate Günther Förg. This work is recorded in the archive under the number: WVF.99.B.1181. We thank Michael Neff for his kind assistance.
Provenance:
- Galerie Wolfhard Viertel, Frankfurt.
- Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1999, since then private collection Germany.
The German painter and sculptor Günther Förg was born in 1952 in Füssen in the Allgäu. While still studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1973 to 1979, he devoted himself to the idea of conceptual art. At first he worked almost exclusively with monochrome works in black and grey, but later added colours. In the 1980s, he spent several years working solely with photography. In the late 1980s, he created his first lead paintings. He began his series of lattice and window paintings in the 1990s, until the new century, when he abandoned strict minimalism, his colour palette becoming more colourful and his brushwork more expressive.
Günther Förg is one of the most important German artists of the post-war period and has left his mark on Minimalism in Germany more than any other artist.
The present four works (lots 3440-3443) belong to the series of what are known as "lead paintings", which he developed in the late 1980s. Acrylic paint is applied to thin lead plates, which are then laid on wood. The surface is enlivened on the one hand by the brushstroke, and on the other by the texture of the lead, which shows traces of having been worked. With the lead paintings, Förg blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture and enters the field of object art.
Provenance:
- Galerie Wolfhard Viertel, Frankfurt.
- Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1999, since then private collection Germany.
The German painter and sculptor Günther Förg was born in 1952 in Füssen in the Allgäu. While still studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1973 to 1979, he devoted himself to the idea of conceptual art. At first he worked almost exclusively with monochrome works in black and grey, but later added colours. In the 1980s, he spent several years working solely with photography. In the late 1980s, he created his first lead paintings. He began his series of lattice and window paintings in the 1990s, until the new century, when he abandoned strict minimalism, his colour palette becoming more colourful and his brushwork more expressive.
Günther Förg is one of the most important German artists of the post-war period and has left his mark on Minimalism in Germany more than any other artist.
The present four works (lots 3440-3443) belong to the series of what are known as "lead paintings", which he developed in the late 1980s. Acrylic paint is applied to thin lead plates, which are then laid on wood. The surface is enlivened on the one hand by the brushstroke, and on the other by the texture of the lead, which shows traces of having been worked. With the lead paintings, Förg blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture and enters the field of object art.
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