La Liberté, le Mur de Berlin, 1988
Oil and mixed media on canvas, signed, titled and dated on the back 161.8 x 130 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection privée, Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Klasen, Du mur de l'Atlantic au mur de Berlin, 1991, Pfizer. The work is represented on pages 18 and 76.
Peter Klasen was born in Lübeck in 1935, his childhood is rocked by art: his uncle, a student of Otto Dix, is an expressionist painter of landscapes and portraits and his grandfather is an important collector and patron.
In 1955, Peter Klasen began an apprenticeship in lithography and airbrushing, and joined the avant-garde High School of the Arts in Berlin. There he met many artists who were particularly influenced by the spirit of Bauhaus or German expressionism, such as Hann Trier.
In 1959, Klasen attended the opening of the Documenta de Kassel, which was devoted to abstraction. That same year, he left Germany and moved to France. He rediscovered the theoretical writings of Dada and the Bauhaus. At this rereading, it is the trigger, he conceptualizes his art, and integrates photography into his compositions. Thus, since the early 1960s, Klasen's canvases, painted with acrylic paint applied with airbrush, have been dotted with collages of objects, documents and photographs.
This work is a statement for the liberation of Berlin and the fall of the wall that has divided it since 1961.
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