Knispel, Ulrich (1911 Altschumburg - 1978 Reutlingen)

Lot 3069 limit € 2.200

Acrylic on canvas, "Electronic", signed in pencil on the reverse of the stretcher, titled and dated 1968 in green with felt-tip pen and inscribed "Berlin", as well as provided with two estate stamps, artist's strip, approx. 100 x 100 cm, with framing approx . 103 x 103 cm, "The defamation of Ulrich Knispel in 1951 was at the same time the beginning of the so-called "formalism debate" in the GDR and, going far beyond the "Ahrenshoop case", was fundamentally directed against the just after the Second World War developing freedom in art. After his dismissal without notice from Burg Giebichenstein and the confiscation of his paintings, the artist fled to Berlin (West). After a series of intermediate stops in his career, he received a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1965. At that point in time The era of electronic entertainment reached its first peak Ulrich Knispel sees semiconductor technology, sliders and rotary knobs as the insignia of this time fe, just the whole fascination of electronics. In a clear, matter-of-fact language, he brings those phenomena to the canvas, in enlargements and excerpts, which make this complicated world more accessible and at the same time more enigmatic." Source: Galerie Bassenge, Berlin