Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart German, 1899-1962
57 x 43 ¼ in
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This painting typifies the pared-down, geometric style for which Vordemberge-Gildewart is celebrated. He pursued abstraction throughout his career, numbering his oils 1 – 223; he first called them 'constructions' in reference to architecture (a discipline he also practiced) and later 'compositions', as an evocation of music. Several paintings from this period reside in public collections, testifying to the creative zenith of this time: No. 127 is located in the IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales in Valencia and No. 131 is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Provenance
The Artist
Vordemberge-Gildewart Estate
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Exhibitions
‘The Thirties - Influences on Abstract Art in Britain’
2 July – 19 September 1998
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
illustrated in catalogue, no. 54
‘Abstraction 1910 - 1940’
1 July - 27 Septmeber 1980
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
illustrated in catalogue on page 88,cat. no. 170
‘Configuration 1910 - 1940’
1 July - 26 September 1981
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
cat. no. 66
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart: Paintings, Collages and Drawings 1919 - 1962
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
27 January - 24 March 2016
catalogue number 17
Art Revolutions. The breakthrough to non-objective art in Russia...
7 April - 9 July 2017
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Exhibited: Galleria del Levante, Rome 6.10 - 10.11.65”
”Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven `Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart,Laszlo Moholy-nagy' 20.1 - 6.3.67 Kunsthalle Basel `Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart,Camille”
”Graeser,Franz Danksin'k 18.3 - 23.4.67 Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim `Fried”
Publications
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