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Kunsthalle Mannheim / Cem Yücetas

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317a/ 61

1961

Rupprecht Geiger

(1908-2009)

Material / Technik
oil paint
canvas
Kategorie des Exponats
Malerei
Gattung
abstract painting
Erwerbungsjahr
1979
Maße
145,10 cm x 131,90 cm
Location

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Intro

Rupprecht Geiger initially pursued a career as an architect before taking up painting as an autodidact during his military service in World War II. His first works were figurative landscape paintings, which already displayed his fascination with color—beginning with the colors of nature as they change during the course of the day.

In his later, abstract works, dominated by the emotional color red, Geiger frequently produced finely nuanced and atmospheric color gradients. The yellow-orange tones of the oil painting in the possession of the Kunsthalle Mannheim are reminiscent of the intensive luminance of a sunset. And yet it is entirely abstract, with even a potential light source concealed from the viewer. The painting is composed of two areas of color laid one upon the other, its color gradients, from yellow to orange, proceeding in opposite directions.

This manner of composition lends the work its constructive character. Color has thus become an independent means of expression of a minimalist painting which—although it has liberated itself from any concrete pictorial object—nevertheless follows a clear structure. Geiger is one of the most important representatives of nonrepresentational art in Germany.

Creditline

Kunsthalle Mannheim

Inhalt und Themen
warmth
light
yellow
flat
abstraction
orange (colour)
quadrangle
polychrom polychromatic
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